6 1/2 Months!

• At your last appointment with Dr. Fletcher, you weighted in at 15.8 lbs. and measured 27” long. (According to the growth chart, you are in the 25th percentile for weight, and 75th percentile for length… long & lean like your daddy!)

• You babble and entertain yourself in your crib before crying out & definitely seem to be a morning person.

• After a week, you’ve finally warmed to the idea of solid foods. So far you like sweet potato, sweet peas, avocado, brown rice cereal, and banana-oatmeal. You eagerly lunge at the spoon and in doing so, you end up with a lot on your face!

• Still no teeth, which is great since you’re still nursing.

• When I put you in your crib, you like to watch your rainforest mobile and fall asleep on your stomach.

You put your pacifier in your mouth, then tuck your hands underneath your tummy and fall asleep.

• Speaking of your pacifier, you LOVE your nuk!
Your daddy and I are totally fine with this… if Kaden is happy, we ALL are happy!

• You typically go to bed around 8:00 p.m. & stay asleep until around 4:00 a.m., for a quick feeding and a much-needed diaper change. You then nurse yourself back to sleep until around 7:00 a.m. when your dad brings you to our bed as he gets ready for work.

• A lot of people say you look like your daddy, while others say you look like your mommy. I’d say you’re a good mix of the both of us.

• You’ve suddenly started pursing your lips together to make spitting noises.

• You LOVE being naked and beam every time I take your clothes off. You’ve recently started flipping over while I try to put a new diaper on you.

• You enjoy being in the bathtub and playing/biting your rubber ducks. You also enjoy it when I rub lotion all over your body when you get out.

• Instead of hating your tummy time, you now seem to enjoy it as you roll back & forth and roll off your floor gym. You can spin around on your tummy and inch forward by using your elbows. I can count on you to entertain yourself on the floor for a solid 20 minutes.

• You like riding in the car and looking out the window from your new, forward-facing Britax car seat and have adapted remarkably to being “on the go” as we typically leave the house at least once or twice a day.

• You definitely enjoy being around people and are very flirty with the ladies at the gym and at the grocery store. You smile all of the time—especially when people talk to or smile at you.

• You can be soothed by singing. It really doesn’t matter which song because any song can do the trick. The “Calm & Relaxed” song seems to work wonders though. 

We love you more than we ever imagined possible!