6 Months

It has already been half a year since our little man came into our lives. Here is a recap of what's going on with Kyler at 6 months.

• He can sit supported and is learning to keep his balance sitting without support. He can scoot backward a little but doesn't like staying on his tummy for very long.
• He is a big eater. He loves his cereal in the morning and eats about 4 cubes of homemade baby food for lunch and dinner. He eats takes between 4 and 8 ounces of formula every few hours and holds his own bottle.
• He usually wakes up once each night after sleeping for around 6 hours. He goes to bed around 10:00 and wakes up between 7:30 and 8:30. He takes two naps each day for about an hour or so each.
• He is growing out of the 2nd size of cloth diapers and I am going to have to order the next size. He is wearing mostly 6-9 month clothes now (and most are hand-me-downs from my cousin Nolan).
• He is all boy. He loves electronics and always wants our phones, computer, and remotes. When he plays toys he shakes them around really hard and sometimes they go flying quite a distance. He is liking noisy toys and "big kid toys" like his little dump truck.
• He still loves books. He is starting to get into the ones that have textures in them. When we sit in the rocking chair he reaches for the pile of books. He flips through pages of his board books.
• He really likes the dogs, especially Baxter. He is getting better at catching them and they are learning to avoid Kyler.
• He is making new noises. He sometimes puts different sounds together, making an incoherent sentence. His newest sound is "bababababa." He has started laughing quite a lot too.
• It looks and feels like he finally has a tooth about to come through.

We are really looking forward to Christmas - Kyler loves paper so he will probably actually sort of unwrap some gifts (until the paper makes it to his mouth). And we can't wait for him to start crawling (although we have yet to babyproof hardly at all).

He has a doctor appointment on Monday so we will include an update with his vital statistics then!



Update: Kyler weighs 16 lbs, 8 oz and is 26" long. Head circumference is 17. All fall in the "25-50%" range in terms of percentile. Poor guy got 3 shots this time. He did good though and just ran a slight fever for a couple days. That and his irritability may have been due to his cold and the fact that his gums are swollen and we are expecting teeth to pop through any time now. We also went to the K-State basketball games with him Monday and Tuesday (late nights) so he was a tired boy.