Ali-gator

Ali-gator is Jane's nickname for Alice.  She calls her that all the time.  I usually use Ali-kins, but other variations include Ali-cat, Ali-saurus, Ali-monster, Ali-Ali-oxen free, and Grabby-grabberton.

At 6 months old, our little Ali-gator is scooting all over the place.  She gets up on her hands and knees all the time, rocks back and forth, and then face-plants, but no real crawling yet.

She's close to sitting, but doesn't quite have the balance yet, or perhaps the patience.  As soon as we sit her up, she dives after something she wants.  She finally has enough control to sit in a high chair, though and that is a huge milestone to me.  Now if we eat out, we're not struggling with a baby crawling, squirming and grabbing everything as we try and eat.  Phew!

She eats three meals a day in addition to nursing and is finally starting to outgrow her 0-3 month clothing. She just had a lower front tooth break through.  We had a few rough nights with that, but we seem to be back on track.  She usually wakes up twice a night.

A few weeks back she suddenly decided to boycott bottles.  I've tried so many times since then with no success.  It used to be that I was the only one she would take a bottle from, and now she's just done.  It makes getting a babysitter much harder.

She's a little screamer now.  It usually happens when she's happy, but still wants to be picked up or when the next bite food isn't getting there fast enough.  She just screeches loudly all the time now.