6 Months: Happy half birthday!

Mr. Man, you are six months old! I cannot believe we have had you for an entire half year already! This month was equally challenging and FUN. Let's start with the fun - it's gotten relatively easy to get you to laugh, and it is just the sweetest sound in the whole world. You are now a major smiler and a rolling machine and immediately go from back to tummy when we put you down. You do the cutest little hands and knees move where you get up on all fours and rock. Sometimes you even launch forward, so I think we are going to have a crawler on our hands VERY soon! You love all things musical...toys, radio, singing, Nick Jr shows. You have started responding to your name and you light up when we call for you.

On the challenging front, you had bright blue tubes put in your little ears on October 14 after four consecutive ear infections. :( That was a really rough day and weekend for both you and us, but you seem to be having no ear pain anymore! Yay! You also sprouted two teeth earlier this month! They are so cute, but I can never seem to capture them in pictures.

The real challenge we've had this month is your eating and sleeping, which still seem to go hand in hand. Your acid reflux seems to really be bothering you more than ever, so you've been fighting bottles with all your might for a few weeks and have been drinking less and less formula. You still love your solids, but without the good formula nutrition in your little belly, you wake frequently at night hungry. Fortunately, Dr. Newton switched you from Zantac to Prevacid yesterday, and we are already seeing good things in just the past 24 hours, so fingers crossed!

At our six-month appointment yesterday, you weighed 19 pounds, 0 ounces (75th percentile) and your length was 27.5 inches (90th percentile). You are still a big, big boy! Right now, you are wearing 6-9 or 6-12 month clothes and size 3 diapers. Keep on growing big boy - we love you!