Month 6

Age: 6 Months

Weight:   18 pounds, 2 ounces

Height: 27.75 inches

Favorite activity:   Right now, you're favorite activity is turning over and crawling.  You are able to move and dag nabbit, you want to be mobile All. The. Time.  Generally this isn't a problem.  At bedtime, however, oh my.  You eventually fall asleep, but sometimes it takes time.

Honorable mentions:  You love your new jumper.  It is lots of fun.  You love chasing and "petting" the kitties.  You love giggling with Daddy.  You love being oogled by ladies in public and you love riding in your car seat - most of the time.

This is TOTALLY WICKED!  (Ignore my tired eyes, 'mkay?)

Least favorite activity:  Still burping and the time where we have to fasten you into your car seat.  You could do without that.  You seem to love the new car seat though.  Much less screaming.

Milestones:   You can crawl!  You're eating solids!  You can almost sit unassisted!  YOU HAVE A TWO TEETH!  This has been a big month for you.

Words:  None, but you still chatter.  You're quite the chatty Cathy.

Sleep:  You sleep very well (knock on wood).  Since you learned to turn over, you sleep on your tummy with your tush up in the air.  It's adorable.  

You go to bed between 6:30 and 7:30 and sleep until around 5:30 or 6.  Some days you get up later, some days earlier but you are always an early riser.  Mama is not...but I'm getting better.  I'll be a morning person yet.

Best Moment:  Crawling!  It was so exciting to watch you wiggle your tush and take off.

Worst Moment:   Crawling!  It's the beginning of the end.  You're growing so fast.  I wish you would slow down.

Eating:  You love sweet potatoes.  You hate peas. (Your dad and grandpas are so proud.)  You weren't fond of avocados, but you tolerated them better than peas.  You also like squash.  Next on the to try list include green beans, carrots, peaches, pears  (Grandma's favorite), and applesauce.

Teeth: You have a tooth!  TEETH!  You have two teeth!  They're your front bottom teeth.  We think they have at least one friend because you're still all drooly and congested and cranky.  We shall see.

First Foods: Apples

Perhaps they were a bit more tart than I remember... It would appear my fears of him not eating vegetables after tasting fruits may have been misguided.

Yum! Apples!

Ack!  Sour apples! Sour apples!

Poor kid happily went back to his squash.

Check out  the Wombat's impression of other foods when tasting them for the first time:

• Sweet Potatoes
• Avocado
• Peas

Training

We finally got you a decent jumper which you LOVE.  You never played as long in the old jumper as you do in this one.  You don't actually jump in it yet, but you can turn yourself all around in it and stand pretty steadily in it.

Look, Mama!  This music keeps playing, but I have no idea why.  And...and...look at this spinning ball...

Soccer season ended this week and I think Daddy already misses it.  He spent most of yesterday teaching you things like this:

First Foods: Grandpa is so proud...

We call this "And you thought avocado was a no..."

First Foods: Avocad-no

We are not a fan of avocados.  Mama even tried to sneak them into your sweet potatoes.  You were not having it.

We put avocados on the "to try again later" list.  Next, we try peas.  Much to Grandpa's dismay.

Best part

After dinner, we take our bath and change into our jammies.  Then this happens:

It's just about the best part of my day.  You listen to the book and look at me, but you would much rather eat the book than look at the pictures.

First Foods: Sweet Potato

Well, we can knock another milestone off the list.  First food!  Saturday night, you tried sweet potatoes.

As soon as you saw the bowl and the spoon, you were interested.  You've been intently watching us eat for months now.  I think you figured this was just another example of Daddy and I eating and not sharing.  You were very excited when you realized that the stuff in the bowl was for you.  Then Mama put it in your mouth.

You were less sure.  However, you picked up the technique quickly and enjoyed your sweet potatoes.  We're still working on the tongue motion, but you love real food.  Daddy is going to take some video tomorrow night so we can see how excited you get when it's time for food.  There is no doubt where you want me to put the food.  You open your mouth so wide I can almost see your stomach.  You also start slamming your hands your high chair tray if I don't put the food in fast enough.

Final sweet potato verdict:  YUM!

I think next we're going to try avocados.