This week Nathan, you turned 6 months old. A half of a year gone already? It seems like only a few weeks. I have been trying to keep track of all the little changes. Your clothes are outgrown, so you must be getting bigger. Your little teeny weenie socks are too small to stay on, so the feet must be larger. Your voice sounds like a baby now, not a nasally newborn.
Teeth! Much to my chagrin there are teeth now. First the bottom right, then a few days later the bottom left. A couple weeks later the top right and this week the top left. A first that goes with the teeth? Your first grinding of teeth and subsequent chipping of your very first tooth. Hmm, daddy grinds his teeth too.
You are so much like your daddy. You smell like daddy, you have daddy's sweet smile, which is not given in haste I might add. And appropriately so, you've chosen this week to have dadadadada be your first attempt at speaking real words.
This week you started sleeping longer at night. (All the mommies and daddies say YAY!!) You slept for 6 hours one night and in 3 and 4 hour stretches all the others. Whew! I never thought I'd see sleep longer than 90 minutes again! I must say I think this may be my personal favorite first this week.
Your naps have taken on a longer, deeper quality this week too. Sometimes two or more hours at a time. Ah, but there is more...
You're eating food now! We have been introducing cereal to you for about a week and a half now and it was always met with the same grimace and foul look upon your sweet little face. "Ewwww, mommy...what is that?" kind of look. We did everything to make it as pleasant as possible. Bought the tiniest little flat and useless spoon, bought the itty bitty jars of bananas and sweet potatoes. We mixed the cereal with mommy's milk ("blah" you said), and then more successfully with just water. Of course we heated it to just the right lukewarmness too.
Each day you were slightly more accepting and a little less grimacey. But still at about bite three you would purse your lips tightly and refuse food entry. If we did manage one more bite it was followed by a signature Nathanial gag.
But last night, you actually liked your cereal with sweet potatoes! You ate two or three tablespoons of it! Mouth gaping wide and arms flapping like a bird, you swatted more then a few bites right off the spoon into the air. All the swatting gave the getting of the food INTO the mouth somewhat of a carnival game quality and required much clean up afterward. But we did it! So many things to eat my little one, you're going to love it!
Another very important first has me rethinking this blog title, you put yourself to sleep, again and again! You did it almost every night this week and for the first time EVER during a daytime nap! You lay in bed soothing yourself with baby babbles and coos. You kick both your feet up in the air and slam them onto the bed lifting yourself again and again. You wiggle onto your side and back to your back in order to twist yourself into different positions in the bed. Whichever one mommy puts you down in is never quite right.
You grab your little bear-bunny by the arm or leg or ear and swing him back and forth slamming him into the bed on this side then that. To the untrained eye all your shenanigans seem very playful, if not violent, and not at all like self-soothing, but it works for you. Eventually you wiggle less, you babble softer and you drift off to sleep. A delightful first for both of us I think.
The growing, the speaking, the teeth, the grinding & chipping, the sleeping, the napping, the eating, am I forgetting anything? Probably, you change so much everyday! It's been a busy week. And something that hasn't changed? Your diaper in the last hour and I think I smell something...ah the sweet potatoes perhaps?
Another first. Peeeyewww!
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