Carter's 6 Months Old

HALF OF A YEAR?!?!

It's even crazier to think in another half of a year, we'll be celebrating Carter turning 1!! Man!

6 Month Stats:

Weight: 18lbs 14oz (75%)

Height: 27 1/4 in (80%)

Head: 44.5 (75%)

He's slowed down as far as percentages are concerned but the doctor said today that is normal to start slowing down at this point.

Carter is moving around like crazy these days. He rolls wherever he wants to go. He can scooch backwards and he can pick himself up and rotate 360 on his tummy. If he wants to get anywhere he can.  Crawling may happen sooner rather than later.

Carter can sit up by himself now on the floor without assistance.. If he gets off balance he topples over to one side or falls backyards. But he gets better every day.

Carter nurses first thing in the morning, but then takes a bottle the rest of the day. He drinks about 7 oz at each feeding. CRAZY! Thankfully I'm still producing alot to keep up!

He started solids last week and is really enjoying it! We stuck to bananas and rice cereal the first week until we met with the doctor today. But we are going to be branching out and trying new things every 3-4 days. We'll keep tabs on what he likes and doesn't.

Carter is naping much better these days. He'll sometime sleep an hour and a half at a time.

He's sleeping around 10-11 hours at night. He goes to bed around 8:30pm and sleeps until 6:30-7:30AM. Sometimes he wakes up once or twice a night, but we just go rub his back for a few minutes and he'll go back to sleep usually. Every once in a blue moon he'll wake up and not go back to sleep and we have to rock him or something until he does. Usually after he wakes up in the morning and I nurse him, he'll either fall back asleep for an hour or two or he comes and gets in bed with us on his boppy pillow and plays around a bit before he falls back asleep.

He has the sweetest laugh.

He loves when mommy sings to him. If he's fussy, all I have to do is start singing to him and he stops.

He is loving bath time right now. He's too big for his little bath and still can't quite sit up in the bath by himself, so he takes a bath with mommy. He loves splashing the water and grabbing his toys.

Carter loves to put EVERYTHING in his mouth! And he's drooling soo much these days!

He is really good and reaching and grabbing things.

Carter can now sit in a shopping cart now! So nice not to have him in his car seat anymore to go into stores. Carry a car seat with an almost 20 pounder is ROUGH!

It's definitely a challenge more now to change his diaper as he loves to try and roll over or reach for things behind him while we are changing him.

Carter loves going outside and looking at everything.

We are so blessed with this little boy!! He brings Kevin and I so much joy!