Oh how the time has flown by. It doesn’t seem possible, but you are 6 months old now! You have grown leaps and bounds in the past 6 months.
You are now a master at nursing. I remember those first days in the hospital, it was so difficult to know thatyou were latched on correctly and actually getting what you needed. I didn’t know if I was providing you with what you needed. Finally once we got home we both relaxed and I knew that you were becoming a master…and bringing me with you. Now you’ve gone from half hour long feedings to about 5 minutes. Another 6 months of nursing and we will have reached our goal of nursing for at least a year.
You’re not only nursing anymore though. You are also eating solid foods. So far you are eating Organic Brown Rice and Organic Oatmeal Cereals, Avocado, Prunes (which you LOVE), Bananas (which is taking a bit of work to get you to eat since you don’t like them), Sweet Potatoes, Carrots, Sweet peas, and Yellow Summer Squash. Boy do you love food! If you see someone else eating now, you demand that you eat something too.
You are sitting like a big boy now all on your own. You still have a few spills and tips, but you are getting it. You also army crawl in circles and roll all around the place. You are offically mobile! I just keep waiting for the day that you decide to fully crawl forward and backwards…that will be a day that I am so happy and yet so nervous all at the same time.
You have always loved to play with your voice, but just recently you have taken it to an all new level. Just last week on Thursday you started making the clicking sound with your tounge. After that happened you figured out that you can do OH SO MUCH MORE! You squeel, and shrill; you blow bubbles and rasberries; you sing and you ‘mmmmm’ to me all the time. I’m sure that you will be talking full sentences the moment you udder your first word, though we do keep hearing you say ‘mama’, but we don’t think you know it yet.
You are also now sleeping in your own bed for the most part. You still come and snuggle with mama in the early mornings, that way I can keep you asleep longer and I know that I get my cuddle time in. But your being a big boy and sleeping in your own bed in your own room. When you wake me at night to eat, I go in and find you on your tummy. You love to sleep on your tummy and side, I do put you on your back to sleep, but the moment your down, its to the tummy you go.
6 whole months of being a mommy to you has been the best. I look forward to the future and to watching you grow and become a man. I look forward to your first words, first steps, first days of school, first girlfriends, first loves, first sports, and everything inbetween. You keep growing, no matter how much I beg you to stop, because I know that it is your destiny to become a great and wonderful man, even though you will always be my wonderful little boy.
I love you my little nut nut!
Mommy
