Half Birthday

I’ve learned this year that you don’t really realize how quickly time passes until you have a child. Maybe time has passed more quickly because of our crazy busy lives, but when you have a child and you actually pay attention to the months passing, and it’s amazing how fast it really goes. Cole turned 6 months on Wednesday and when he was born, I promised him that I would always celebrate his half birthday because his real birthday is only 2 weeks after Christmas. I made cupcakes (for adults only of course) and he doesn’t have many toys, so he’ll be getting a few new toys when we move.

Here’s what Cole’s accomplished in 6 short months:

Weight and height: we have to wait until Cole’s 6 month appointment on July 15^th

Clothes: we’ve moved up to 6-9 month clothes and size 3 diapers

Teeth: I can see the lower left tooth coming in and I hope it’ll break through soon because it’s driving him crazy.

Strength milestones: Cole’s sitting up on his own! Right now he can only sit for about 5 minutes without falling over, but he’s doing it longer and longer each day.

He also rolls over from his back to his tummy all the time, but he forgets that he also knows how to get from his tummy to his back and he gets angry. He tries to scoot himself forward, but doesn’t make it very far. I’m not super eager for him to crawl anyway!

Eating: Cole’s still mostly breastfeeding but he does get one meal a day of baby food. Or, I should say, one meal of bananas because that’s all he’ll eat. We’ve tried oatmeal cereal, rice cereal, sweet potatoes, peas, and plumbs. He gags and throws up everything we feed him except the bananas. Today we’re going to try pears and see how he does. Ben was a super picky eater as a child and I intentionally tried to eat a variety of foods when I was pregnant because apparently that helps expand the babies taste buds, but obviously it did no good.