Baby Steps

Babylicious boy is growing up so fast. He just has his six month well check. He is currently 17 lbs (50th percentile) and in the 75th percentile for height. He has been really interested in real food for quite some time now. He has watched us like a hawk as we eat dinner moving his eyes with our eating utensils. He got his first bowl of baby cereal right at 5 and a half months. I have gradually been giving him other things since then: bananas, pears, green beans, carrots, crushed up Cheerios - he loves it all. He even likes to suck/gnaw on thick slices of red pepper sometimes. And he finally got the hang of the bottle - YEE HA! He is the oldest of any of my babies to take the bottle (all of the rest of them took it as soon as I tried it). He liked to chew on the tip and play around with it. I tried again about two weeks ago and he figured it out. From then on it has been no problem at all - he sucks at it like a pro. And he is starting to sit up on his own. He'll still topple over occasionally, but he can sit by himself for a little bit, and he is getting better and better about keeping his balance for longer periods of time. He is lovin' his mommy these days and gets a little nutsy when he sees me and I'm not holding him. Along with this comes a little bit of "stranger-danger." It's not too bad, but every so often he'll get a little sad when someone new picks him up (it's usually not too bad unless I'm somewhere close by and he knows it). He likes to grab at everything in sight and try to put it in his mouth, he loves to make happy yelling noises and he is still the cutest little baby around. We love him to bits.