We can truly say that the last six months has been the best six months of our lives. This may sound like a cliche, but it is so true! I absolutely love being a mother and I can tell that Mike enjoys being a father as well. Jackson makes it so easy for us - he is such a happy, easy-going baby. As sad as we are that he is growing so fast, we really enjoy the stage that he is in. He has so much personality at this point. Jacks smiles all the time and has the cutest little laugh. He loves to play. He is also getting really interested in the pets and anything that moves. It is fun to see how he reacts when in a new place - he swings that head side to side and takes in every last thing.
This is no surprise to anyone, but at his six month check up Jackson weighed in at 17 lb 4 oz (45th percentile) and was a whopping 29 inches long (100th percentile!). He is sitting up some now on his own without being supported, although he cannot pull himself up yet. He is pushing up a lot more when on his belly but not crawling. The poor little fella is also teething....you can tell he is in some pain and it just breaks my heart! He is eating solids twice a day now and is nursing 5 times (thanks God!). Jackson absolutely loved his first food - sweet potatoes. He even cried for more!
Not only do I love this age/stage because of how fun it is and all of the milestones he is reaching, but I really love that we finally have a pretty good routine down. His wake up time is somewhere around 8:00. He then nurses and we do solids shortly after. We have morning playtime and then he is ready for a nap by 10:30 and is now taking a long morning nap. Shortly after waking he eats his lunch (nurses) again and then has play time. His second nap is usually about three hours after he started the first. This nap is much shorter. He recently changed from 3 to 2 naps so it us usually the last sleep before bed. Jacks then eats again and then has more playtime. Daddy gets home around 5:00 to play and feed dinner before a bottle and bedtime. Bedtime is now around 6:45-7:00ish. For his bedtime routine, we dress him in his Pj's, read a couple of books, pray together and then give goodnight kisses (I have a hard time stopping!). He has grown to like this routine and knows when it is time for bed. I love that he enjoys it and can go to sleep so easily. It is great to have a routine because it is so much easier now to plan to do things than when his eating/sleeping schedule was all over the place. We also get more time to hang out the two of us. The only downside is that it is hard to go out to dinner or plan things at night.
Again, time is just flying! We will be planning his first birthday before long! We are so blessed to have this little sweetie in our lives. I love him more than anything! It seems just like yesterday that he entered our lives yet I cannot remember life without him.
Below are some photos of our growing boy from this past month:
He had mixed emotions about trying peas for the first time, but ended up liking them!
Monthly photo!
He loves bath time and has gotten really into sucking on a wash cloth - not to worry, we give him a clean, non-soapy one!
Sitting up like a big boy!
First sleep over with Miss Linde! The Powells came to visit.
Such a trooper while Mommy is out running errands.
Photos from Jennifer and Derek's wedding. He was such a little party animal!
Playing with Daddy and Cooper.
More from the wedding.
My sweet little Valentine.
He is learning to play more independently.
He is also learning to jump. He has the right leg down. Hopefully the left will catch up, if not he will be really good at left handed lay-ups!
Love.
Eating dinner.
And eating his toes....this is a daily snack!
Here are a few pics from the previous months to compare:
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