182.5 days, 26 weeks, a half year old...

Whatever you call it, my baby is 6 months old! (sniff) I can't believe how the time has flown by. Some days I feel like he ate my baby, literally, he weighed 18lbs 13 oz today at the doctor (mind you he gained almost a pound in 2 weeks)! He is 26 3/4inches long and his head was 17 inches ( I think because to be honest with you, I find the head measurement the most boring measurement of all and it tends to not stick with me). He is 70% in weight, 66% in height, and 50% in head. Jack's eyes are still blue! They are a hazel/brown just in the center and gray blue everywhere else.

Jack is such a ball of joy and wiggles. He is constantly moving except when he is asleep, and really, he isn't asleep that much. He slept 9.5 hours straight last night, but that is not consistent yet - working on it though! He sits up like a pro, rolls over from back to front (he is still not wanting to roll front to back but I know he can do it?), and can spin himself around on his belly. He got his first tooth right at 5 months and the second tooth poked through 2 weeks later. He started with a sippy cup 2 weeks ago and can hold it on his own now. He doesn't quite get how high he has to hold it to get juice out just yet, which, unfortunately leads to his newest personality development, frustration. If his toy or whatever he is messing with isn't doing what he wants it to do he freaks out, and then. moments later, he turns right back into peaceful baby. Humm a mix of Nathan and I???? He LOVES to eat. His favorite food is pears or anything that has pears in it. A close second is sweet potatoes and corn or bananas. To be honest, I haven't found a food he doesn't like yet. Jack's favorite toys are his bouncer, exersaucer, and Baby Einstein blocks. He loves to watch TV so we will pretend that all he watches is Baby Einstein and Sesame Street, which enjoys, but sometimes he watches The Deadliest Catch with Nathan. Nathan calls it bonding, I won't tell you what I call it!


Happy Half Birthday Little Man! We love you!


Here is the little man in action today. He is saying hi and blowing kisses aka "rasberries" to all his readers.

6 months old and fabulous! Clearly Cami thinks so as well, or at least his diaper is. EWWW!



Parking the car with Daddy. Don't freak, I'm not Britney Spears, the car isn't moving!

Jack's new slipper socks. He has to wear these when he is in his bouncer or exersaucer because he was getting blisters on his toes. Notice the tails.

OK so earlier this week I probably had my first really stupid parenting idea. I decided to have Jack make Nathan a Father's Day card. Start a tradition you know? Well Jack just wanted to eat the paper and the "project" lasted all of 30 seconds.

This is what happened when I took the paper away from his mouth. This is a classic case of his new frustration issues! Meltdown city.

"I want it back. I promise I won't eat it!!"
So I don't think I will be able to get that other video of Jack laughing up on the blog. We took it with our actual video camera rather than our picture camera, and the file is huge. And according to Andrea, Blogger won't let me post something that size. So remind me to show it to you when I see you next. Hilarious!