You had your 6 month doctor visit today. As ever, you are TINY. Your stats:
13 lbs 14 oz (1.5 percentile)
24 inches (0 percentile)
You got more vaccines, which you handled like a champ. The doctor prescribed a new vitamin with flouride in it for your impending teeth. He also prescribed a hydrocortisone because you have had a rough patch of skin on your belly for months. He also has us using a thicker lotion since you have such dry skin, even though we lotion you at least twice a day. He said you can start solids at any time now, although we've decided to hold off for now.
Some things about you at 6 months:
- You have developed this cheesy grin which has merited you the name "Cheeseball" by Daddy. You grin so hard that it makes your eyes crinkle.
- You are fascinated by my cell phone. I don't let you play with it routinely, but it makes for a good quick distraction when needed.
- You have suddenly become camera-shy. Very inconvenient. You'll be a loud riot, but as soon as anyone whips out the camera to photograph it you immediately go silent and just stare at the camera straight-faced.
- You are great at reaching out and grabbing things to play with and chew on. Now that you can sit up I can put you on the floor with some toys in your lap and you'll reach down and grab them to play with. You quickly knock things out of reach though so it doesn't take long before I hear you fuss and find that it's because you've knocked all your toys just out of reach, with a little circle of toys a foot away from you.
- You like to sing sometimes, both alone (like when we're in the car) and with others (if someone else is singing sometimes you like to join in)
- For the last several weeks you've started giving kisses to people! If someone's holding and kissing you, you grab their face and plant your open mouth on it somewhere and start sucking/chomping. Very slobbery and sometimes painful, but absolutely adorable.
- You can actually play on your tummy happily for a couple minutes at a time before you decide you're tired of it. You can't get up on your hands on knees yet though.
- You LOVE hot milk. A while back I accidentally let your milk bag run under the hot water for too long and ended up with warm milk instead of room temperature milk. It was still cool enough to drink, so I gave it to you anyway, and you had this look of pure bliss on your face while you drank. I don't think you came up for air once. So now if I need to give you a little bottle before bed I make it nice and warm as a treat for you, but any other time of the day I don't let it get too warm so that you don't get used to it.
- Anytime we take you somewhere we get comments on what a cute baby you are. So true.
- You can anticipate play now instead of being surprised by it. So if we lean over you slowly you'll start breathing fast and your eyes will open wide and you'll get really tense and excited while you wait to see what we do. Also, if we hand you a toy you want sometimes you'll give a little chortle of excitement.
- You sleep through the night quite well, and have for the last few weeks! We usually put you to bed sometime around 8:30 and you now regularly sleep through until at least 6:30 the next morning. Sometimes even a little longer, if I'm lucky. Of course we still occasionally have to come in and give you your binky if you cry during the night, but it's still amazing! I really did not expect you to start sleeping through the night for a couple more months so I am very happy about this! I still have to set my alarm and wake up once in the middle of the night to pump, but at least the rest of the household gets a good night's sleep!
- You now realize that things happen on tv and computer screens. You like to watch Nana and Papa when we video chat, and you like to watch little clips of movies and songs on the computer.
- You sit up great and can do it for long periods of time.
- Still no rolling over yet.
- Your babbling and chatter has gone to the next level. You have figured out how to make some consonant sounds with your mouth, mostly sounds like buh da la mah na wa, or your favorite combination - "bla". We are often treated to an ongoing chatter as you yell out different sounds.
- You like being read to although you now grab for the book so it makes turning pages hard
- You have a sense of object permanence now. If something falls or moves, you'll turn your head toward where you think it has gone. We've been warned that this skill will soon cause your Stranger Danger phase where you cry whenever we leave your sight. Not yet though.
- You are just a charming little child. A pure joy. You are old enough now that I can take you places when you're awake and not worry too much about you causing a fuss. Just last night we took you to dinner with us and you were happy as can be. While you certainly require a lot of time, attention, and energy since you want constant play, I have definitely felt like you've been an easy baby for the last couple months. I have watched our neighbor's 2 month old a couple times now and it's crazy how big of a difference there is between how hard it is to take care of you two with you only being a few months older. I feel like we are on a good, predictable schedule and it really does make things so much easier.
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