The first six months ...

Six months!

Look for the tooth on her lower right ...

Lots of news! (video)

Anne is becoming such a big girl -- where do we begin? Let's see, biggest news first: Anne has a tooth! Daddy thought her gums looked discolored last Wednesday night. Mommy noticed her sucking her tongue and lips like an old lady without her dentures on Thursday morning, stuck her finger in Anne's mouth, and voila! There was the little tooth! Next, food. Her rash was better (though not completely gone -- doctor thinks she has a little eczema) on Thursday, so we started with oatmeal, since rice cereal seems to have triggered the rash. Anne says forget rice, oatmeal is GREAT! Then on Tuesday, Anne tasted her first vegetable -- sweet potatoes. They were a hit! The last news is really about Mom -- she took off last weekend for her annual father-daughter trip to New York. Grandma Gloria stayed with Daddy. Anne slept well, ate well and smiled all weekend, and she was all smiles when Mommy got home. (Mom and Granddad saw three wonderful shows and ate at Daddy's favorite restaurant, Becco, and had a grand old time.) Here are some pictures of Anne and her sweet potatoes, plus a video of Anne trying oatmeal for the first time (with Mom's own baby spoon). Anne's cousin Dondi says kids like oatmeal much better than they like rice cereal.

Six-month picture is coming soon ...

Meantime, here's a look back!

Kissy-face with Dad (video)

Sorry -- the picture is dark, but the video is still sweet!

Roly-poly (video)

Our Anne has just started rolling from back to front ... and again to her back. In part, we think it's happened because we adopted a tough-love approach to sleep. She needed to learn how to go to sleep by herself in her crib, without being rocked by Mommy and Daddy and without being swaddled.

Now she's more free to move around, i.e. roll around, in her crib, and we wait awhile before coming to check on her if she's fussing.

Anne and Ellie

Anne's friend Ellie came over to play on Friday. It's always exciting to see Ellie, but it's especially exciting now because Anne finally looks the same age! Ellie is a month younger, but she was full-term and was due around the time Anne was supposed to arrive. This means she looked older and bigger in earlier pictures, like the one where they're in yellow, which was taken in July.

BOO! (video)

Sorry for the lateness in posting these: Anne's Gram Sheri sent a Halloween dress that was so cute, it's scary. See the witches? And their brooms? And their cauldrons? Gave us shivers! (Behind-the-scenes video from our photo shoot included.)

Anne is rollin', rollin', rollin' ...

Anne has started rolling from front to back and from her back to her side. Fun!

If her face looks a little rashy to you in this video, well, that's because it is. Her doctor thinks Anne may have an allergy to the rice cereal she has been enjoying so much since Thursday. We're skipping the cereal for a few days to see if that's it -- glad we went slowly and haven't introduced more foods yet! If the rash gets better, then we'll try oatmeal or barley.