Happy 6 months Henry!

Happy 6 months Henry!!

Here is the comparison from last month

 and from his 1st month to now, he looks so different!

Weight: 16lbs 11oz at his appt last week. (40th percentile) 

Length: 27.5" long (85th percentile)

Clothes: He is in 6-9mo stuff now and I've started buying 9-12mo stuff for this winter purely from a length standpoint. His 6 month stuff is baggy in the middle on him but too short. Tall and skinny this kid.

I went shopping for fall clothes. Note to new mommas, all of your baby gift clothing runs out after size 3-6 month and then your kid is naked.... Don't worry, We hit the Carter's sale in the baby wrap and hit the jackpot. 

Likes: playing with toys, putting everything in his mouth, "standing up" while we hold him

cereal and eating his pureed fruits and veggies (especially peaches and squash)

 Green beans

Peas

giving hugs and wet sloppy open mouthed kisses! 

the ceiling fan, all lights and CORA! 

The little mother herself

Two babies to play with. She was in heaven

Morning hang out sesh. She is the one who will get him to start crawling. Guarenteed. 

She kisses his feet and runs around him in circles to make him laugh.

He can't get enough of her lately. She walks by him and he starts cracking up laughing at her, I seriously need to submit it to America's funniest home videos.

Dislikes: When his food bowl is empty, He makes this grunting howler monkey sound when he wants more.  Getting bored, and dirty pants.

Sleeping: He still goes to bed around 9-10pm and sleeps until 5am every single night. He takes a nap in the morning for a few hours and another one (usually with momma before I work) from 1-4 each afternoon and then a little catnap after he eats around 5pm. Same as last month. We really have a good schedule down.

He can sleep anywhere, anytime. 

 This was in the booth at fritz's restaurant, it was so loud, hedidnt care.

Snuggling my cousin

Eating: He has still never had a drop of formula and nurses when I'm home and drinks pumped milk by bottle when I'm at work. He has a wide variety of fruits and veggies we have tried out and ruled out allergies with so far. He has had avacado, green beans, peas, carrots, yellow squash, bananas, peaches, plums, apples and pears. He gets a fruit with breakfast and a veggie with dinner.

Playing: He loves his small toys he can hold and play with. I lay him on the carpet and put his toys all around him and he rolls around forever and grabs them and tries to eat them and gets bored with them and will roll for another one.

Other Milestones: He can sit unassisted for a few minutes or so. He is just sooooo lazy. He can roll front to back and back to front but hates being on his stomach and quickly flips to his back so he doesn't have to hold his big ole head up. He can stand unassisted if he is holding on to something. Like the side of the bathtub or the couch or me. 

What Dr. Grossman Said: He said he is doing great developmentally and is strong for his age and size but a little lazy. He said we should start working toward purees 3x/day (a few weeks ago we started working towards two. It's just so hard to do a few meals each day because my schedule is inconsistent with napping and working and such, but it must be done, just means less sleep for momma. Teeth are just around the corner. He could see and feel some progress on the bottom so I got him a few fun teethers and he has been even letting us rub his gums sometimes for 20 minutes at a time. However, he isn't cranky. He just smiles while we do it and coos, I haven't noticed much of a change in him except that he loves to snuggle a little more lately.

These are Nuby Chewbies. He loves them and can chew on all sides and spaces of them.