Her favorite toy is still water bottles of all kinds.
She also likes anything that will make noise. She started flapping her arms up and down like a bird a few weeks ago, and now she does it whenever she is excited, or if she's holding a toy that makes noise. She has these toy chains that she loves to shake and sometimes she has red marks on her head at the end of the day from hitting herself during her vigorous arm flapping while holding the chain. She likes to sit in front of her basket of toys and pull them all out. She gets kind of bored with her toys so inside her basket there are random things like crumpled up paper and water bottles.
She eats baby food every night. She likes most kinds except bananas. She likes apple but she can't eat it because it upsets her tummy and keeps her up at night. She likes peas but I don't buy them for her because for some reason puréed peas smell like fart. I'm going to start making our own this week anyways because the stuff you buy is so watered down and over priced. I did buy some of the puréed meat food like chicken but they smell so bad. I bought "ham with gravy" but I am terrified to even open the jar for fear of how it might smell. Ugh. Also, I don't know why but no matter what food I give her, she always makes a horrified face when she has the first bite. Then she usually gobbles down a whole jar but it's like she doesn't understand what I'm putting in her mouth at first even though she has had it every day.
We took Quinn camping at Flathead Lake in Montana last week for 8 days. I was pretty nervous that I would undo all of the progress we had made as far as her sleep habits go. We slept in a tent, but my parents have a trailer so we got to give her a bath in it every night. The first day we got there, she took a nap in her pack n play, and she fell asleep on her own. She started out sleeping well that night too. I thought that I had worried for nothing. But then it got cold in the middle of the night. And her pack n play was at a slant because there was no flat ground so she ended up sleeping with me on a cot. So the rest of the week wasn't that great. Actually, at first, I was like oh my gosh I love snuggling her all night! But then neither of us slept great squished together on a cot and she kept crying when I put her in the pack n play so I just kept her with me so she wouldn't wake up other campers. She pretty much woke up every hour and a half and I had to nurse her back to sleep. By the end of the week, she had started throwing her binki off of the cot so I had to search for it in the cold dark tent a bunch of times and I was getting pretty irritated. Then we came home and she is sleeping better then she was when we left. She wakes up twice at night still, which is not awesome but a hundred times better than where we used to be. And she consistently takes 90 minute naps. So she is happy and I am happy. She loved camping though! The lake water was pretty cold since it is glacier fed, so she took awhile to get used to it. I would just carry her in and let the waves hit her feet. She would gasp and try to climb up me and hold onto me really tight. The second time I took her in she was a little more brave and kept leaning towards the water, wanting to touch it. She would go back and forth between me and the water but pretty soon she just wanted to be held parallel to it so that she could splash her hands in it. She kept splashing water on her face. I wish I had pictures of that but I don't. She also would suck the water off of her hands. The second half of our week there the weather was super cold and rainy so then we spent the next few days in my parents trailer, wishing it was warm. All in all, I would do it again. Camping with a six month old isn't too hard. We just had to bring a lot more stuff. 
Uncle Hayden being weird with his awkward mustache 
I would highly recommend bringing one of these if you camp with a baby.
Notice the water bottle close by.
Getting sleepy! She pretty much yawned all day every day while we were there since she didn't exactly get quality sleep. 
The beautiful lake the morning after a storm.
She got really excited when we put these life jackets on her before our trip. These are the smallest ones they make that I am aware of. I guess life jacket makers probably think that most babies don't need life jackets. They are rated for under 30 pounds though, so I guess it's safe!!
Quinn is not crawling, when she wants something that is out of her reach she just kinda rolls back and forth from tummy to back and wiggles towards it until she can reach it. I remember before she was really rolling, she hated tummy time and she would get really mad before finally rolling out of it. But then I would go in her room and she would be playing after her nap on her crib and she would be on her stomach and moving around. Then one day she rolled all the way across our living room floor. So I am pretty sure that she practices stuff when she's alone in her crib and we can't watch her. It's like she doesn't want to do stuff just because we want her to do it. I won't be surprised if she just starts crawling one day.
She has mastered the art of putting her binki in her mouth the right way. One night, she kept crying even though I knew she wasn't hungry, so I went in to give her her binki because she usually goes to sleep if I let her cry for a few minutes and then go in and do that. Well, she was crying with her binki in her mouth. What was I supposed to do with that? That was when I realized apples upset her tummy. She also started sucking her index finger last week. Speaking of fingers, I remember when she was a newborn and her hands and feet seemed so big and her fingers were so long and skinny compared to the rest of her. Now her fingers are shaped more like bugles. And she has small feet, she's not even into size 2 yet, although she wears 9 month clothes.
Quinn is such a happy baby. She is social now, I always see her trying to get people's attention when we go to church and there are people right behind us. She is very smiley. When she's not being social, she is usually very focused on a certain task. She is quite determined and sometimes it can be hard to get her attention if she's right in the middle of working on something. She yells a lot though. Especially when it is quiet. She talks the most when she is in her crib or in her car seat. And then she flat out yells when she is mad no matter where she is. She is wonderful. I can't believe how amazing she is. I love watching her grow and learn. I am so lucky to be able to be with her all day every day.
Sitting with grandpa :)
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