Six Months

Mommy & Will 

Baby boy.. how are you six months old? Half a year?! I really need to get on planning your birthday party. You amaze me daily with how much you are growing and changing. I'm so excited to see each new milestone you accomplish! Let's check up on you and see where you are.

Weighing in

Flirting with the Nurse

At the doctors this month, Will weighed in at 14lbs 11oz! He's finally on the charts for his actual age of six months. He is hitting the 5th percentile for height and weight. His adjusted age he is hitting the 75th percentile! That's pretty exciting news in the world of preemies if I do say so myself. He was measured for height at 25 1/4 inches long. He's almost allowed in his walker! We put him in sometimes to check where his feet are and he's so close!

Health

Poor Feverish Baby

Will did ok with his vaccinations this time. We actually ended up being feverish for two days for the first time. He got five shots and one vaccination by mouth. Besides this little fever side effect Will is a very healthy baby. He is doing great and has barely even had a cold. His flat spot is almost gone in my opinion and I'm very happy with how his PT is going! We're working on sitting up unassisted and he's doing wonderful with it already!

Sleep

One of my favorite pictures of my blondie

Will's sleeping has been awful lately and my mom and MIL have attributed it to teething. I am skeptical honestly as to if he is teething or not but his schedule has drastically changed and the drolling is excessive and the hands in the mouth and the screams of pain.. yeah, ok, maybe it is his teeth. Every night before bed we give him his teething tablets and orajel and put him to bed around 10pm. Is this late? Perhaps but we're night owls in this family. If he goes to bed earlier we let him. Whenever he is ready. Some nights he goes to bed by 8:30 and others 9:30. Whenever he's good to go we let him. He'll sleep roughly five hours, sometimes less, never more. He'll go back to sleep after about 3oz and it's out for another three to four hours. Then we're up for the day.

Routine

Found those toes! 

7:00 am: Wake up, 6oz Neosure, vitamin D

8:00 am: Get dressed for the day, tummy time, play time 

9:00 am: Nap number one, sometimes for a few minutes, sometimes for an hour  

10:00 am: 6oz Neosure, play time, tummy time 

12:00 pm: Lunch of fruit

1:00 pm: Nap number two, usually for a good amount of time and Mommy gets some things done! 

3:00 pm: 4oz Neosure, up and moving, play time, tummy time 

5:00 pm: Dinner of a veggie and 4oz Neosure

6:30 pm: Cat nap and dinner for mommy

7:00 pm: baby cereal then bath time! 

9:00 pm: 4oz Neosure and eventually bed 

Clothes

Will has been in 3 to 6 months clothes for a while now. I realized he was six months old and though oh I should probably get out the 6 to 9 months stuff! We don't have much of that and I think mommy needs to go to baby gap very soon..

Diapers

We are comfortably fitting into size twos and will be for at least another month or so! 

Diet

Will gobbles up his fruits, veggies and cereal daily without fuss. We've now had sweet potatoes, green beans and squash in the veggie department. In the fruit department we've mastered bananas, and pears. We're going to move onto apple soon. Will is going to continue on the Neosure till at least six month adjusted age so we'll be on it till his next appointment at 9 months. 

Milestones

Kennywood

March of Dimes Walk

First Pens game at the bar

5/1 First Penguin's Playoff Game @ the bar

5/4 First March of Dimes walk

5/12 First mother's day

5/18 Turned 6 months old

5/19 First trip to Kennywood

5/20 First time in the pool 

5/26 First fireworks

5/27 Found his toes

5/27  First memorial day

Sleeping through his first fireworks

Loving the water

Overall my baby boy amazes me. He's trying to sit up all the time. Loves to stand on his feet and loves to laugh! I'm so thankful I have such a sweet child who has such a great demeanor all the time. I hope you all had a wonderful memorial day with your families. Enjoy the start of summer!