6-Month Update

Owen turned 6-months old last Monday, and I remembered to take his monthly photo late in the evening again:

He's getting to be quite the little chunk a monk.  After his good photo he got playful snuggling with his stuffed animals.

 Owen had his 6-month wellness visit this past Wednesday, and here he is waiting for his shots:

Here are the stats and comparison from 2-months ago:

6-month check-up (Wednesday May 22, 2013)
Weight- 17 lbs., 2 oz.
Height- 27 inches
Head-  44.5 cm/17.5inches
**He's following along his growth curve

4-month check-up (March 25, 2013)

Weight- 15 lbs., 4 oz. (65th percentile)

Height- 25.5 inches (75th percentile)

Head- 43.2 cm/17.0 inches (topping the charts)

As you may notice, he is pretty much fully blonde now besides the ends of his hair around the sides.  His blonde is not quite as white blonde as Jack's, but he's definitely blonde.  He looks so different than when he was first born with a ton of dark brown hair.  Such a funny change!

As far as developmental milestones go:

• He can sit up unassisted for a short period of time, but he doesn't want to do it.  Every time I try to practice with him he pushes onto his back or stomach so he can move around the room.  He prefers to be laying down so he can roll around the floor over to objects.
• He rolls ALL over the place!  I'll set him down in the middle of the floor, go get something out of the kitchen, and he'll be on a totally different side of the room.  He rolls over to the toys he wants to play with.
• When on his back he pushes off his heals to propel himself towards things, and when he's on his stomach he tries to push off the floor with his toes and knees.  He wants to crawl sooo bad!
• He hasn't been sleeping in the sleep suit for a few weeks now.  I stopped using it primarily because he couldn't roll over to his side or stomach easily, and he would get really angry in the middle of the night since he prefers to sleep on his side or stomach.  It was also getting a little warm in our house, even at night, for such a thick suit.  
• He LOVES baths!  Initially we were using the Nuj bath seat in the sink, but we started giving him full baths a few weeks ago.  There were two initial bath experiences where he screamed the whole time, but I finally got him eased into it very, very slowly where he figured out it's quite relaxing.
• On May 6th, 2013 I noticed his first tooth breaking through his gums...his bottom right tooth.  He went through a period right before I noticed the tooth where he was waking 4-5 times a night.  Once the tooth broke through he went down to twice per night.  I'm hoping all of teething won't have such a dramatic impact on sleeping.  I think the tooth next to it is getting ready to make a breakthrough soon.
• He still regularly wakes up twice a night.  The doctor was telling me that he should be down to once a night by now.  I can handle twice per night, but any more than that makes me a little frustrated.  I'll probably start to try some night weaning to get him down to once sometime in the near future, especially since he and Jack are going to be sharing a room.
• He has tried a few different foods including egg yolk, carrot, banana, pear, and avocado.  He threw up 6 times in an hour a few hours after eating egg yolk for the second time, so we're going to hold off on that for a while just in case he has a food sensitivity or allergy as recommended by the doctor.  I decided recently that I'm going to do the baby led weaning strategy for food introduction this go around.  He's extremely oral and interested in what we're eating, so I think it'll be a good method for him.
• He can drink out of straws and a sippy cup, but he usually just spits the water out of his mouth once he gets it out of the cup.  
• He has really started to find his voice.  He yells out all the time, and he will straighten his arms by his side locking out his elbows and clenching his fists while he lets out this guttural yell that is hilarious.  
• He is absolutely not a snuggler when he's sleepy.  When I finish feeding him before bed and/or naps he immediately kicks off the side of the nursing chair, arching his back, and screaming until I put him down.  I used to think I'll just enjoy this snuggle time with him in the middle of the night to try to be positive about being up in the middle of the night, but he does not want anything to do with it.  On the plus side, he knows how to put himself to sleep, because it's really not possible to nurse him to sleep.

And here is one last picture of the little cutie:

I can't believe he is already 6-months old.  The time is flying by so fast!