February 27th, 2009

Six months of slobbery perfection!

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What can I say?  Every day his personality shines a bit more.  He’s been the best baby.  He’s very good at rolling over and back, and is starting to commando-crawl, and he’ll get up on his knees and face, but that extra push up on his arms isn’t quite mastered.  He’s so close, though.  It’s comical to see him using his head, literally.

He’s examining toys more, and playing more interactively.  And he loves to eat!  He loves spoon feeding, and he’s getting very good at it.  He gets so excited when he’s in his high chair and I have a bright bowl of food for him.  We’re sticking with the rice cereal mixed with milk for now, and I will very gradually start introducing other things.

So far, so many of his mannerisms are exactly the same as his brother’s.  He laughs and laughs when his brother teases him.  It’s delightful to see.

I’ve made it the first six months on the breast pump, and am in a reasonable routine now, so I’m patting myself on the back for a job well done.  The next goal is to make it to eight months on this schedule.  By then I should have nearly enough frozen stash to get him to the one year mark.  So at eight months I’m going to begin a very very slow weaning process, cutting down to three pumps a day for a little while, and then down to two.  It needs to be slow because I don’t want any problems with clogs or infections.  I’m not quite sure how I’m going to get there, because as it stands, I’ve not been very successful at stretching the time between pumps past eight hours, so to go to twelve is a bit lofty at this point.  I’ll cross that bridge when I get to it.  For now, I’ve got a gorgeous, delicious, snuggly, slobbery little boy to dote on.

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3 Responses to “six months”

Blue Moon Girl Says:

Oh so very cute!! I am so jealous of all that hair! I can’t believe it’s been six months already. My how time flies when you’re having fun!

The spoon feeding is very popular here too. We had to skip the rice cereal and go to oatmeal because it was very constipating (I know TMI!). The applesauce has been the absolute favorite so far.

Happy six months to Spud’s birthday buddy! :o)

Aunty Evil Says:

When you wrote that he laughs and laughs when his brother teases him, I had a sound in my head of the giggle babies his age get. It is one of the best sounds in the world, I reckon.

He is gorgeous.

MsCellania Says:

Your boys are so beautiful, Sue.
Hey – got the chook and have already delivered it! The note inside is PERFECT and delighted the recipient. She can’t wait to add her success story.