6 months Kayleigh is now 6 months and 10 days old, actual age, not quite 4 months adjusted. The other day, we went to the pediatrician for her 6 month check-up. It’s really amazing to think how this little one, who couldn’t survive on her own when she was born, has come so far in only 6 months. Heck, most of her battles were completed by the time she was 4 months. Of course, the pediatrician could not stop raving about her progress and saying what an amazing little miracle she is.

She now weighs about 12 lbs, 3.5 oz (5.54 kg) which is up about a full pound from the last time she was weighed, right at a month ago. She’s grown out of her newborn clothes and it was bittersweet for me today to go through and take them out of her drawers and set them aside.

She’s a little bit behind on some things, but I think that’s to be expected. For instance, she still wobbles her head pretty good when holding it up. It’s strange, because she started to get control pretty early but we’re not worried, it will come in time. But because of this, the pediatrician does not yet want to start her on any rice cereal.

However, she’s also ahead a little bit – she can roll over both ways! Here’s 56 seconds of K rolling around a bit and lifting her head and what not. The third clip though she is just talking until she notices me there. Yeah, she is doing a really weird thing with her eyes there.

That’s the other thing we discussed. I think that all she is doing is trying to focus on something, it seems to happen when she’s trying to look about 8 to 10 feet away. It doesn’t happen all the time, though, either. We might go 4 days and not see it and then have a day where it happens several times. She’s due to see the eye doctor in early December – apparently preemies can have all sorts of eye issues. In May when she saw him last he said to me, “I see no problems that are typical to preemies,” but, of course, it is now nearly 5 months later. So we’ll see. The pediatrician told us that if we see it getting worse, though, to go in earlier to her eye doctor.

That’s about it, though, everything’s on pretty much the up-and-up. The doctor did say that we should start physical therapy with K though, so I guess we’ll have to start up home visits again. Blah, I hate home visits. Beats taking the kid out in the dead of winter, though.