another month has came and went. he is now 1/2 a year old. that is just crazy. it makes me sad to think that time is just flying by, but i do have to say...just when i think i can't love/enjoy little becks anymore, another day goes by that i fall more and more in love with him and his little personality. he is just growing like a hormone injected chicken. (if you don't know what i'm talking about, rent "Food Inc." pretty interesting. ha.) well, and know we aren't injecting him with any hormones!!! we are still making all his food except for the organic prunes we buy him in a jar. i don't know why that is the only thing we buy, i guess we could probably make them too, i just haven't yet. i know, i know, slacker~ so as of today, he has tried: apples, bananas, sweet potatoes, carrots, prunes, brown rice cereal, avocados (which he didn't seem to like, unless bananas were mixed in), and pears. he really likes eating and is always saying "ymmm." makes me laugh every time. everyday he seems to be doing something new. he surprises me with something and makes me laugh every single day! he brings me so much joy.
this past month seems like it has been so crazy. i have one more week of my photography workshop...so, i have been pretty wrapped up in that lately. i'm learning soo much stuff and am ready to start putting it to use. so, if any of you come across some vintage looking props, please let me know!
on his six month birthday, we drove to silverthorne to get out of steamboat for the day. we went to target and some other stores. we were worried that his schedule would be so thrown off, we initially thought about not going but decided to go anyway. he did so awesome. he slept about 45 minutes on the way there and was a little trooper the entire day. he usually naps off and on all day at home, but not this day. although we knew he was tired, he didn't want to miss a beat. he zonked out on the way home, and slept like a charm that night! we have so much fun as a family. daniel is the best dad ever. he is so attentive, patient, and loving. i'm so lucky to have him as my partner!
this month uncle zac got sick with a form of tonsillitis and it scared us. he had to go to the dr and have something drained and was having difficulty breathing. we made him spend the night with us so we could monitor him through the night. and that we did. we took beckett's video monitor and put up in the master room where zac was sleeping, we listened for him all night. we told him to clap if for some reason he couldn't speak and we would come running! a little overboard maybe, but hey, we thought better safe than sorry. so in the middle of the night when i fed beckett, around 3a, i went upstairs to check and make sure he was breathing. i scared him and the next day he said, "apparently you have adjusted to not having any sleep." indeed i have. not to mention, i feel like a mother to everyone ;)
this month we also had to get becks new socks. all of his socks were way tooo small. now he looks like a little grandpa with his tall white tube socks. i told b, "oh, you look like your daddy when momma first met him." daniel always wore these socks and of course i never said anything but let's just say dan doesn't wear them anymore! ha.
6 month Stats
size- finally 3-6 months and some 6 months
size 2 diapers
weight-12 lbs 4 oz =<.8% (i'm not sure about this because my scale at home says almost 13.5lbs) his dr is a little worried. we will be going back in two weeks to check again
length-25.5 inches= 18%
head circumference-approx. 16.75 inches=15%
Things i don't want to forget:
- how he touches my face and lips while he eats
- how he is constantly rocking back and forth and talking in his "bumbo" chair
- how when we were laying on his bedroom floor one day, and he was trying to catch the mist from the humidifier
- how he will let out long grunts right before he falls asleep
- how he peed on me two separate times right before bath time
- how much he loves prunes
- how he says "hi" anytime you walk in the room or you say hi to him
- how he plays with my hair all the time, especially while he eats
- how he is constantly reaching for something, he has to touch everything, and then put it in his mouth
- how he stills likes to be swaddled
- how we moved his bath to the kitchen sick for now because he is too big for the baby tub and too little for the big bathtub (the nozzle is like a shower for him!), he won't sit. he just wants to stand
- how he smacks his lips when he is hungry or when he is eating
- how he started sucking in his bottom lip
- how he loves to play with any box/bag/papers on the kitchen counter
- how he will put two fingers (if not all five or even all ten) in his mouth and then push out his tongue on the other side of his mouth
- how on october 30th, he just kept roll from his stomach to his back, over and over
- how he started blowing bubbles
- how he loves sitting up in his bathtub instead of lying down and how he loves to splash around
- how he just sticks the rubber ducky in his mouth and lets go with his hands
- how he doesn't like his johnny jump up, but he likes to sit in it and watch the laundry spin
- as of nov 4, 2010, he has slept 3 nights now from 8-5a, i love you little buddy and so does daddy
- how he is just a mover and a shaker, constantly kicking and flailing his arms
- how he will just one arm going back and forth
- how much fun he had when little mia came to visit him, he just laughed at her when she would shake the rattle
- how much daniel has helped me this last month with the one middle of night feeding and early morning feeding. he has practically gone and got him every time and brought him to bed for me to nurse and then taken him back to his bed. sounds so small but means so much! i love you daniel
- how he rubs his face, hair and clothes (especially when he is eating or tired), just feeling everything by opening and closing his hands
- how he kept laughing and looking at his shadow one day
- how he wants to drink out of my glass like a big boy, so we gave him some water in a sippy cup and he just puts it in his mouth like "yah, i got this"
- how one day when i was reading to him, he had his hands on the book and kept looking up at me and laughing
- how he can now sit on my hip with me holding him with one arm
