Six months and growing fast...

Eliana keeps growing and developing as the weeks go by. She is not yet crawling, but at least is willing to be on her tummy now (whereas before, she would start screaming after being on her tummy for 10 seconds.) Once on her tummy, she can push her torso up with her arms. Moving foward is, however, a different matter. She doesn't understand that she has to push herself foward with her knees...

She has decided that she doesn't like any solids that we've given her. At first, she would take the rice cereal. Now she spits that back out. Then we tried apple sauce, but she made a crinckly face at that. Thinking that apples were too sweet or acidic, we gave her mashed up bananas, but that got spit out too. So for now it's still just breastmilk and we'll try again later.

But Eliana loves her sippy cup. She'll grab on to that thing and drink water like there is no tomorrow. She does not yet, however, understand the concept of tilting the cup back. So once she drinks the top fifth of the water, she has a hard time getting to the rest of it.She loves her sippy cup so much that she fell asleep with it and we had to pry her little fingers open before putting her down in her crib.

And bath time has become a lot more fun because Eliana can sit up by herself. For the first few minutes of every bath time now, Mommy holds Eliana in the tub, where Eliana can suck on her toys or anything else within reach.

And lastly, here's a 1 minute video of her on our bed hanging out. She is babbling in between licking the bed and licking her beanie baby monkey... and otherwise just being herself.