Dennis Sheng-Nian Wang 6th Month

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Since our last photo update, Dennis's been sitting up on her own, and staying sitting for extended periods of time, every once in a while she'll still roll backwards but it rarer now. Dennis also seems to prefer to work on scaling and standing supported rather than crawling. She can crawl, but will often choose to sit down and then find something to climb up on.

She celebrated her first Thanksgiving. Although since she hadn't started solid foods yet, there is some debate as to whether or not Thanksgiving was actually celebrated by her.

We then took her 6 month portrait. True to our tendencies we actually took 168 photos. Don't worry, not all of them or even most of them made it to this page.

At her 6 month well baby visit, Dennis weighed 15 lb 5 oz, 25.25" in length, and head circumference of 16.5".

Dennis is very interested and entertained by Hunter, Basil and Joules. They're more tolerant of her, and let her pet them for short periods of time before relocating.

Dennis's been going to "Book Babies" once or twice a week for a few months now. It's a program at our local library, where they sing and entertain the babies and parents for about half an hour. Dennis gets to socialize with infants of all ages.

The library also had a "Santa Photo" event the second week of December, and we took photos of Dennis with the stranger in the strange outfit.

Dennis spends a lot of her day (when she's not sleeping) in the game room, which is filling up with her toys. We like the Stack and Roll Cups from Fisher-Price, and we've build up a large collection of Peek-a-Blocks and Roll-a-Rounds, also from Fisher-Price. The large majority acquired through e-bay.

One thing nice about the weather in Texas is how mild it is this late in the year. We've spent a couple weekends working in the garden, and Dennis enjoys watching us from her swing, which we put on the patio.

We've started feeding her single grains. The first was rice for a week, and then oatmeal. She likes her cereals, and will actually drink it from the bowl directly rather than be spoon-fed, although she's a champ at holding the spoon too. Just this week we pureed carrots for her, and she doesn't seem to like the taste of them, but loved playing with them. We've also purchased a high-chair to feed her on, since she's started escaping from the Bumbo seat.

We'll be going to Southern California for 8 days for a combination business/vacation trip. We'll be in the Huntington Beach/Seal Beach for 4 days, and the spend two days and two nights in Joshua Tree National Park and the spend Christmas with Dennis's youngest paternal great uncle, Uncle Jeff and his family in Placentia, California.

This will be Dennis first plane trip, and her chance to see the Pacific Ocean and her 4th National Park.

She's going to be seven months old the Christmas Eve Eve, and we'll post the next series of photos just before the new year.