Benjamin is six months old! I can't believe it's been half a year since I met this little stinker. He is growing up right before my very eyes. Every day he makes me love him more and more. Benjamin loves attention. He loves to laugh. And he loves being out and about. Everyone always says what a great baby he is - and he is - but only if we're not home. I think he thinks home is boring. Hopefully he will permanently think our new house is someplace interesting.Weight and Other Stats: Between 16 and 18 pounds? I'm not sure. He's not due for his six month appointment until a few more days.
Size: Still in Size 2 diapers and he wears six month, nine months and twelve month pants. Long legs. Onesies depend on the brand but we're mostly age appropriate right now. I've stopped buying new clothes because he has grown so much the past few months it has seemed like a waste. Luckily my mom keeps buying stuff at the consignment shop.
Eating: Hungry hungry hippo Benjamin has finally come around to "solids" which is good because he doesn't like his bottle unless he's desperately hungry because he's been teething for weeks now. I feed him half a "jar" (plastic) of purees in the morning before his bottle and day care feeds him the rest at lunch. We just started pouches this weekend and it was a huge hit - I think because it was nice and sweet. Benjamin seems to hate green beans and other boring vegetables (which I didn't think would happen with babies if you introduced them early enough, oh well) but vegetables plus fruit seems to be working. We haven't tried any more actual "food" because I'm just not ready.
Sleeping:We are doing good. Still goes to be right around six. Still wears the Magic Sleep Suit. Still wakes up once at night to eat. Sometimes, like last night, he will wake up four other times just to cry and be sad, but I suspect that has more to do with teething. He almost never opens his eyes when this happens so we just try to comfort him and walk away.The newest thing that's happening is TEETH! Benjamin is cutting at least one, and possibly four, teeth. He appears to be cutting an eyetooth. He wastes no opportunity to show you his tooth, or where it will be, or take your hand and put it over the affected area. Tylenol and Ambesol are our best friends. On weekends Benjamin just wants to be held all day and if we put him down he will cry. It's actually not as bad as it sounds. There are certain things that CRACK this kid up but he's just not really into independent play right now. H and I are convinced day care spoils him. His lead teacher calls him "boyfriend" and rips him out of my arms as soon as I get into the room. He is a little flirt and I swear he gets a little sad when he realizes he is going home with me instead of the day care ladies but I'm actually not jealous because I know they really love him.
Milestones? None really this month though he is SO close to sitting up. The tooth thing will be huge when it actually happens I guess.In post partum news, I got my period! Pretty much exactly one month after weaning from the breast pump. We won't be ready to start fertility treatments again for a while but I'm not so secretly hoping for a freebie in the meantime. I never thought I'd be ready for #2 before B was a year old but, what can I say, he is awesome and I loved being pregnant. (Famous last words?)
We are close to getting his new car seat and soon we will hopefully be transitioning him to the Montessori bed in his new room. I'm more than a little excited at the prospect of having a bedroom that I can enter between the hours of 6 and 11 p.m.
