Our schedule usually goes something like this: I pick Felix up at about 5pm from daycare. We play a little bit until I start making his dinner at about 6-6:15 pm. Scott usually gets home just before or just after he finishes eating. I use the 15-30 minutes while Scott is playing with him to do some dishes, throw in some laundry, etc. Felix is usually rubbing his eyes and itching to get the bedtime process moving by about 7:15-730 pm, depending on the day (sometimes he's at that point way earlier, sometimes later). Between bath and/or getting him ready for bed, we usually start the nursing process by about 7:45-8:00 pm and I get out of there anytime between 9:00-11:00 pm (sometimes I can escape for 15 minutes before he gets up again to get some things done).
I'll admit, there are times when I fall asleep in the glider and wind up getting out of there way later then expected. I'm hoping he grows out of the stage soon. We've started giving him baby oatmeal at in the morning too, thinking that maybe breastmilk just isn't enough for him anymore and we needed to add a second meal during the day. We have also considered that I am not producing enough at bedtime to satisfy him, which is why he wakes up a couple more times to eat now. My supply dwindled a bit when I switched jobs recently, most likely just my body getting used to the new pumping atmosphere/schedule.
Enough about my night time difficulties...onto why you're really reading this post:
Milestones:
- As of your 6 month appointment a couple of weeks ago, you weighed 17 lbs 3.5 oz (42.46 %) and was 26.5 in. tall (50.43%).
- You have been reaching for things, especially me and dad.
- When you're hungry, you try to pull yourself to my boob (which freaks out your dad).
- You started rice cereal on August 20, 2011. You loved it by the end of the meal on day 2 and, since day 3, get super excited every time you see your bowl and spoon.
- About a month after we started you on rice cereal (just after your 6 month birthday), we started making your baby food. So far, you have had avocado, green beans, oatmeal (not made by us) peas, and carrots. You started carrots tonight and LOVED them (so much, you ate almost 4 oz!).
- As a result of eating "real" food, your poop has become much more solidified and it STINKS!! I know anyone who has fed their baby formula is used to the awful smelling poop, but the difference is shocking to us!
- On August 28, 2011, you rolled from back to front in your crib. You did this for several nights in a row and cried until we rolled you back over. It only lasted a few nights and you haven't done it while sleeping since.
- On September 6, 2011, you sat up by yourself for a couple of minutes. Now, you sit all the time and love it. Just this week, you started dropping yourself to the ground from a sitting position. Looks like you might try crawling soon!
- On September 7, 2011, you pooped in the tub for the first time ever. On the one hand, I'm shocked it hasn't happened before, considering that, until recently, you had a bath every night. On the other hand...GROSS!!!
- You sit all the time now. We can literally sit you down with all your toys and you'll play for over an hour (as long as we sit and play with you every once in awhile). Don't worry. We don't ignore you! But sometimes, it's the only time we can get things done. Although, there are plenty of times that if I walk 2 feet away from you, you scream your head off.
- In anticipation of the winter months, we've started bathing you every other day, instead of every day, so you don't dry out. We also did it so you didn't get used to needing a bath before bedtime.
- We had our first middle of the night hospital trip with you on September 6, 2011. You had what we thought was (and probably actually was) a cold, which turned into a nasty cough. We had you sleeping in your Rock N' Play to keep you elevated. As we were going to bed, we heard you start coughing, lose your breath and then we heard nothing. We both jumped out of bed at the same time and went running into your room. After calling the doctor for the second time that night, we took you to the ER at about 1am. Luckily, they saw us pretty quickly and we were only there for 2-3 hours. Unluckily, dad had to hold you in the x-ray contraption while you looked at him screaming the entire time. The ER doctor, who I was NOT thrilled with, told us you "might" have a slight case of pneumonia. When I pressed him as to what else it could be, he told us that it could also be nothing. But any doctor say your baby has pneumonia is like forcing you to put your child on any medication they recommend. We took you to the pediatrician the next day who told us it was likely just a cold, but to keep you on the meds anyway, just in case. You healed up pretty quickly, but ran us ragged in the process!
- We got you a big boy stroller (the City Mini) in anticipation of going to the Big E. While you still fit in your infant seat and Snap N' Go, you're so curious about everything around you that we wanted to let you start facing forward when we were out places.
- You had your first trip to the Big E on September 24, 2011. As you'll soon learn, we go to the Big E for dad's birthday every year. You were very well behaved even though it was SUPER hot that day and even did well on the car ride home regardless of the fact that we kept you out past your bedtime.
- Your 6 month shots were awful. It was the first time your dad came to a doctor's appointment and you had to get 4 shots that day, including your first dose of the flu shot. Your legs hurt so bad from where they gave you the shots that day that I gave you some tylenol after you ate dinner to try and soothe the pain. Well, you choked on the tylenol and when your dad picked you up to help, you emptied the 3oz worth of avocado that was in your belly all over him, the rug and the couch! O and you also threw up the one lone cheerio we had given you earlier, which you promptly choked on and swallowed hole (another terrifying moment). Note to your doctor...cheerios do not dissolve quickly as you advised!
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