6 Months

We were a few weeks late on the 6 month checkup because of our trip to Utah, but I made up for it by making Dez get the flu shot on top of all the other ones he needed. I'm a cool mom. He did actually cry a little this time, but was over it as soon as the shots were done. His legs seem to really be bothering him tonight though and he had a teeny fever. He's never needed to take Tylenol before now and OH MY GOSH does that stuff work. He went from a fussy mess to hitting himself in the legs and laughing.

He's now 20.3 pounds and 27.5 inches. I think his New Year's resolution was to not gain any more weight because he's been stuck at 20 pounds for a while! And still no signs to teeth.

This last month he has grown up SO much! A month ago he could just sit for short periods of time and was just starting to scoot. Now we can't even contain him! He's still just scooting, but he gets up in crawling position (and down dog) all the time, he just can't figure out the arm part yet.

He's started to grab my face while I'm holding him and suck on my face. I never though having a baby slobber all over you would be the best but it really is.

He's slowly getting the hang of solids even though most the time he doesn't seem to be in the mood for it unless it's random pieces from our plates. It also doesn't seem like he's nursing any less now that he's eating some solids either. His favorites are sweet potatoes, squash, bananas and avocados.

While in Utah his sleep schedule was even more miserable than usual which encouraged me to want to set an actual schedule (along with my mom). So the past couple days he's actually fallen asleep before 11 with a little less crying each night! I hope he's learning how to fall asleep on his own since we always have put him to bed already asleep until now. No one ever gave me a step-by-step of how to do this! Well I guess every book ever about baby sleep has a pretty good list, but I never got around to those books because ain't nobody got time for that. Even though I do have time. I just don't read. Now I do. Bye.

(PS...My pictures have such good lighting. Some people just have a gift I guess. -__-)