Sylvie is 6 Months old!

With all of the stress and excitement of starting work again, I definitely want to give Sylvie her due. She turned 6 months old on Monday!!! I am so proud of my little girl...she weaned from nursing exclusively to taking formula in a bottle in a matter of a few days and has taken to daycare as if it was completely natural for her to be there. She is so sweet, constantly smiling, happy, and very active. She sits with some support and rolls over with ease. She had her check-up today and she weighed in at 15lb 13oz (7.2kg), which is 48 percentile...just right! At the appointment, the nurse walked in and Jonathan promptly told her "Hey Baby!", which is what Mike says when he walks in the door...we all cracked up laughing. Here's the little rollie-pollie in action.

Jonathan is developing quickly too and always comes up with something new. I've been speaking to him only in Hebrew for the past month and he's picked up on the language rather quickly. He'll now speak sentences with both English and Hebrew in the mix, like he'll say, "Bye, bye kelev (dog).", or "Happy Birthday Sameach (Happy)!". He's been saying "Happy Birthday!" every time we light the Hanukiya...I guess it's a candle thing. His new favorite (or at least most used) word is "Lishon" (sleep)...around bedtime, he'll start saying "Lo Lishon! (No sleep!)" over and over again, or "Sylvie Lishon (Sylvie sleep)". Last night, we told him that it was bedtime, and he turned to us and said "Four Minutes!". Mike and I looked at each other and cracked up. Jonathan started laughing too and we said "You need four more minutes?" To which Jonathan replied "Yep, four more minutes!". So, we let him have four more minutes. Wonder where he picked that one up. He's also talking to objects now. Recently, he's been kicking the ball around the house and yelling at it "No!! Not that way! Over here! This way! Faster!". Jonathan also likes to tell us to "open the doors!" and by that he means our legs so that he can crawl through them...nice imaginary play. His Saba and Savta are coming this weekend (my parents) and he's in for an intensive potty training course...we've been preparing him...stay tuned!