Cece is 6 months and it's SO hard for me to look at her and realize that we are already halfway to 1 year. She's got 2 teeth and she's been a snotty mess, so I'm sure we have more on the way. She's trying so hard to crawl. She gets up on her knees and rocks her little heart out. Regardless of the fact that she's not actually crawling yet, she gets where she wants to go. She rolls all over the place. In general, she's content to roll around and play with her toys (or her brothers). She really likes music. She gets VERY excited when she hears Katy Perry's "Firework" when my phone rings. And she sure does know when her daddy is supposed to be home. Every night, around 6, she starts to get cranky and she insists on being held. this is because daddy has done so for the last 6 months. This is particularly difficult when he is on-call. I get nothing accomplished when he is because Cece MUST be held. She gets so excited when he comes home. Her whole little face lights up and she starts kicking and flailing her arms. There is no doubt about it. She's a daddy's girl :) She has started saying dada a bit more. Although, mama is heard quite frequently. She can blow kisses and sometimes makes fishy lips when she tries to do it. She's outgrown her bouncer and her swing. If she's not sleeping, she won't sit in them.
Johnny is 6 years old as of June and for some reason, 6 has been the hardest for me. Last year, I was so proud to send him off to kindergarten. But 1st grade was HARD. I went home and just cried. I find myself looking through his baby pictures a lot lately and wondering where the time has gone. I can't even pick him up anymore. He started riding a 2-wheeler a couple weeks ago and I find it hard to keep him in the house. I can barely get him inside to eat. He's also getting better in school. He is so much more calm this year. He still has some issues focusing but his psychiatrist is going to switch his meds soon so I'm hoping it will help. He's starting to sound out more words on his own. He's still behind most of his class. It's been very hard for me to help him with his school work. Sometimes I feel awful because I get frustrated. It all came to me so easily in school. I guess he didn't inherit my book smarts. He's also starting to look less and less like me. A fact that sometimes makes me very sad. He looked so much like me for so many years. It's hard to look at him and see traces of a person I'd rather never see again. We ran into his little brother a couple of weeks back and it made it very hard to deny that he's no longer my spitting image. He loves the water. He had an insane amount of fun in the "big pool" with me and Nick this year. He's too scared to let us teach him to swim though. He's excited to get a new pet. He would really like a cat but we aren't really cat people. We had one on our back porch this summer that we took to the humane society because it was injured. But he dubbed him "porch kitty DeCocker" right away :) He thinks that anything he could consider a pet should be dubbed a DeCocker. I think he's excited to have his name changed. I feel bad that it won't be happening as soon as we had hoped. And he's an amazing big brother. He loves his baby sister so much. Sometimes we catch him doing things he shouldn't, like trying to hold her upside down. Let face it, he's never been the safest child. And its very hard to tell him not to do it when Cece thinks it giggle worthy. If it makes her laugh, it must be okay! right? LOL
So in honor of their 6th milestones here are 6 pics of Johnny
He is also a budding photographer :)
And 6 pics of Cece
And here's a couple of them both :)
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