6 Months!

Rachel turned 6 months old yesterday. I really just can't believe how quickly time has passed. We are just so blessed to have such a wonderful, beautiful little girl in our lives. She is absolutely perfect!

She just has so much to say. You can tell from this picture that she has a little spark in her attitude sometimes.

Most of the time, she is just such a happy little girl. This picture shows pure pleasure and excitement.

She is saying, "Mom, I will hang out on my belly, but I am NOT ready to crawl yet."

Just adorable!

Bath time last night.

Getting ready for bed.

Feeding herself pedialyte this morning.

So, the end of Rachel's 6 month birthday did not go so well! As I was nursing her to sleep, she was very restless. Something was not quite right. She was laying on the bed frustrated and upset. I picked her up to burp her and she projectiled all over me, her, and my bed. I went and changed her and I thought that she would be okay after that. I took her back into my room (after Tim and I changed the bed) and tried to get her back to sleep. She was kind of lethargic and still acting weird. She started to gag so I picked her up and she vomited again. This time, I made sure it went on me and her and did not get on the bed. However, 10 seconds later, she got sick again and it went all over the bed again. I went to go change her again. She had stuff all over her, but I didn't want to give her a bath because she was so out of it. I cleaned her off with baby wipes. She was out of clean pajamas by now. I was going to do her laundry the following day (should have done it sooner I guess). I went to put on some other clothes and it came out the other end and she got it all over them too. By then, we decided to have her hang out it her diaper because every time we laid her down to get clothes on, it would make her sick again and she would get them dirty anyways. She eventually got everything out of her and was dry heaving. It was breaking my heart. She was so upset about it and I hated that there was nothing I could do. This went on for almost 3 hours. She got sick every 5-15 minutes. She was soooo tired. She would almost fall asleep sitting up and then would get sick again. I called the doctor because I wasn't sure if it was something I fed her (because I had fed her pears for the second time and when I gave it to her on Sunday as well, she spit up quite a bit which she usually doesn't do) or the stomach flu or something else. She said just to let it work its course and only feed her pedialyte the following day. I went and bought it right away because I didn't want her to wake up really hungry and not be able to feed her. She usually wakes up starving and so I figured that with an empty stomach she would be hungrier than normal.

She is doing better today. She has more gas than normal but I think that she is feeling mostly better. She has not thrown up since last night. I stayed home from work with her. I was up most of the night and would have been thinking about her the whole time I was at work.