6 MONTHS

Well, Mason made half a year. He is getting older way too fast and learning and doing funny new things every day. 

 

Here are his stats:

Height: 27.5 inches (85%)

Weight: 15.5 lbs (16.5%)

Head Circumference: 17.8 inches (85%)

He still isn't crawling, which I'm kinda glad about because I like knowing where he is give or take a few feet for his one-way rolling.  Yeah, since we started putting him in a sleep sac at night he has gotten the rolling thing down but only in one direction.  So every now and then at night we have to rescue him from the crib bumper he is clinging to and put him back in his corner of the crib he started at.  

We are trying to get him to soothe himself and sleep through the night, needless to say it's been a bumpy ride.  He does pretty well most nights only waking up once or twice for about a half hour of crying, but other nights it can be multiple hours of crying and a number of rescues from the side of the crib.  Our neighbors are probably just loving us right now.  Christopher tries to pass the hours of crying by going to the front room and playing some Nintendo, as long as his baseball team is winning he doesn't mind too much that he's awake at 3 or 4 in the morning.  

This was his first time on grass, he didn't know what to think at first but liked it soon after.

Mason still doesn't have teeth but he has started eating more foods. Our pediatrician recommended that he eat the meat baby foods with more calories because he's a little on the lighter side.  We try and feed him as much as he can eat whenever he wants.  He loves eating food now.  We put him in his bumbo and put his bib on and his legs start kicking in excitement.  We know he really likes the food because he can't wait for it to get in his mouth, he grabs your hands and pulls them toward his mouth to get the food faster.

We also discovered that he loves the "Big Bang Theory" theme song.  Whenever we are watching episodes and that song comes on he will turn his head towards the TV and just stare.  The other day he was even on the ground grunting and whining when we turned it on and he stopped crying and just listened. When the song is over it repeats with a short pause in between, during the short pause he would start to whine again until the song starts and he would stop, sit still and listen to it. He did this multiple times, it was pretty fun to watch.

He also loves the pop bottles Christopher gives him, and discovered that with it in his mouth he can make noises that sound cool in the bottle.

We practice sitting every day, he still won't do it consistently   He can sit by himself for a short time but he loves to stretch his legs out straight too much that he ends up launching himself backwards.  A few times when he really wants to stand we try sitting him down just for fun because he will arch his back and get really mad that you are trying to make him sit.  I guess he'll have to learn to crawl and move before he can sit still.

He is so much fun to play with all day and we love him so much.  He makes life so fun!