Halfway through our first year!

 

Time has just flown by since you arrived! You are a few days shy of 7 months old and even though I feel like you've just been born, I can't make sense of how you are this big already. You are a chunky little sweetheart, at your 6-month doctor visit you measured in the 85th percentile, the size of an average 9-month old. You have been slowly introduced to solids but they are not very interesting for you yet, I have videos of you gaging and spitting out almost every new food you have tried. At this time, the only safe food is mashed up bananas and your regular baby formula. You have also started sitting on your own for longer periods of time, and still haven't found out how to roll from stomach to back, so you wail until someone comes to rescue you. You give quick smiles to everyone you know, and usually a loud excited screech for Emmett, but you have yet to give anyone that belly laugh we have all been waiting for. Maybe you're holding out for a truly special moment? You had a sleep regression right before you turned 6 months, and it took over two weeks to get you sleeping through the night again. Even now you don't fall asleep or wake up at a specific time like you used to before, but at least you sleep long stretches most of the night. You spend most of your day on your play mat, or sitting at the kitchen table in your bumbo seat, or stomping your feet into the floor in your walker, or wriggling around in your bouncer. On most days we have Aunt Autumn and Uncle Steve here, so you also spend some time on their laps. 

I have not been brave enough to move you to your crib yet, you still sleep right next to me in your pack n play, but you are dangerously close to outgrowing it, so I think we will have to relocate you within the coming month. One of the quirks I never want to forget about you is that you sleep in baby bunting! I know once you begin rolling over in your sleep we will have to find a new way to keep you warm at night, since all of these winter onesies have hoodies, but for the moment I will keep loving how you immediately fall asleep once I put it on you and you feel the softness around your head.