Saturday, January 9, 2010

Nate's Half-Birthday!

Nate is 6 months old today. First, some cute pictures, then an update.




Nate, how nice of him, threw a bag of chips on the floor the other day!



Nate, after about 3 weeks of being up for hour(s) at night, is back to sleeping all night. He goes down extremely easily at about 7:15 and sleeps until 6-7 when he eats, and normally goes back down for another hour. Couldn't ask for more! His napping is not great. He seems to need to nap at about 10:30 (but usually won't) and then sometimes gets a quick one at 1ish. His only real nap is when he lies on my lap during Jack's nap. Then he sleeps over an hour.

So the rolling over comment last month was premature. He did roll over a whole bunch one day, but hasn't since! Weird.

He sits up quite straight now. He can grab for toys and pass them hand-hand while sitting on his own. He gets tired and falls over still quite a bit. He also, sometimes, can get from sitting to his tummy without bonking his head.

He hasn't shown any interest in rolling back to front. When he is on his tummy he scoots around a bit by squirming. He certainly can pivot in circles readily.

He gets made if you take away something from him that he still wants.

He will have cooing conversations, but no real babbling yet. Lots of screeches and coos though.

He is a very good eater. He ate almost an entire jar of sweet potatoes along with about an ounce of milk and a tablespoon of rice cereal the first day we offered it to him. (So far he has only had sweet potatoes and rice cereal). The bowl was empty, so I stopped, but I think he would have kept going. He also has a bottle every night at about 6, of about 5 ounces of pumped milk. He gets very excited when he sees it and eager grabs for it. He eats this will sitting at the table with us. He nurses 6-8 times a day.

An educated guess puts his weight at 19 1/2lbs. Based on his clothes I think he is taller than Jack was at this age. That would put him at about 29" if he really is taller. We shall see at his 6 month check-up in about 10 days.

He still fits in most of his 12 month/6-12 month clothes, but some are too tight/short. I have taken out his 12-18 month stuff and the onesies fit great in the torso, but the arms are a bit long. Same with the pants.

1 comment:

Kerry said...

Wow! I can't believe he's 6 months old already! Great photos.

Many months back Abby rolled over a few times in one day and then never again until a few weeks later too.