6 Months and 7 Miles

Yesterday was Sam's 6 month check-up. The doctor said we must have picked her from the "cute tree" and that she was perfect. Gotta love hearing things like that from the doctor! :-) Although we all thought she was getting pretty big and feeling heavy, she is still on the small side - 14 pounds 3 ounces, and 24.5 inches long -which puts her squarely in the 10th percentile. But what did we expect? I would have been shocked if she was a huge baby!

It is amazing how quickly she is changing these days. She is sitting up unassisted for longer periods of time, is rolling both ways like crazy, is scooching her butt in the air and trying to crawl, moves her toys from hand to hand, picks things up easily now, and is really alert when it comes to new sounds and new people coming into the room. She is also doing wonderfully at daycare, which makes things easier for all of us! She is such a happy baby - very smiley and 'talkative'. Her little laugh when something is funny just makes me melt - so cute! She is still not so sure about the solid food that we've fed her, but she'll get there, I know!

After her check-up yesterday afternoon, we headed to the bike path for a run. Sam had gotten a number of shots at the doctor's office, which she was not happy about, and we knew she could really use a nap, so we figured, why not get a run in and knock her out at the same time? Nothing like multi-tasking :-) It was a nice afternoon, but windy along the river. Ryan, being the nice hubby that he is, pushed the B.O.B. but did grumble a few times about it being a sail in the headwind. We ran the 5.25 mile out-and-back together, and then Ryan and Sam stopped while I headed back out to add on another 1.75 to get my 7 miles for the day. I was feeling pretty good, and finished up in 1:01:12. This week will be a slight recovery week, but it was good to get in one hour long run, at least.