My 6-month-old Bug

Six months ago…

My one-day-old baby

Five months later…

My baby loves making faces!

Today…

Sorry, I don’t have an official 6-month-old photo of him yet…but I must tell you that he is now a bouncy, full-of-life little one!  He’s slowly discovered the use of his knees and arms and in the last two weeks has really gone mobile.  He can now crawl from one side of the room to the other to get something he’s set his sights on to, never mind that he keeps flipping on his tummy to back to tummy and back again about ten times.  I think he rather enjoys that!  Ahh…tummy time has finally paid off!  It’s scary to think what he can do if we leave him all on his own.  He just might wander out of the house!  Oh, and ya, both Steve and I have been fascinated by his unusual high tolerance for pain.  His small body would hit something on his way to grab a toy he’s been eyeing and he would not even flinch.  There were more than one occassion when we’d expect him to cry because of a hit or a scrape but not even a fuss comes out of our baby’s mouth.  Mind you, when he went for his 6-month vaccination, he screamed and big tears streamed down his face.  There, he’s not so immune to pain, after all.

He’s also been pooping pretty regularly in the toilet, at least once, at most three times a day.  I don’t have any grand goals in this exercise besides teach him that poop goes in the toilet.

The last three weeks he has been sleeping through the night.  That means he’s been sleeping on a stretch of four hours, wakes up for his nighttime feeding, then settle down for another stretch of four hours before his early morning feeding to last him another two hours of sleep.  It’s amazing how much moving he does in his sleep.  Just about every time he wakes up he’s on his tummy and has moved from his original position to someplace else in his crib.

I am a new person because of his new sleeping pattern.  Where before, I’d be lucky to have a shut-eye of two hours, now I’m finding myself in dreamland again.

His first tooth is out!!  It sorta sprang out overnight.  And he was not unusually irritable.  There’s another one coming out right next to the first one.  I actually can feel it just above the surface of his gum when I stick my finger in there to feel it.  As you can imagine, he is putting anything and everything in his mouth…and with his mobility these days, he sure is keeping his momma on her toes!

He is such a joy to watch as he grows and discovers the world around him…and I am ever so grateful that he is with us!