As cliché as this sounds, I can not believe Thomas is already six months old! Time is flying by!! I’ve heard somewhere before that “The days are long, but the years are short” and I feel that is the perfect way to describe life with your children! There are some really, reeeeeally long days. I mean like, really long. The kind of days where I start counting down the hours, minutes, and seconds until Daddy gets home from work and can offer some relief at breakfast time. But those are far and few between.
These past few weeks have been really fun with Thomas. He started getting up on all four’s about a week ago and now he is rocking on all four’s! I really believe crawling is just around the corner! Our house is so not baby-proofed yet! I guess maybe I should get the Clorox out from under the sink??
T-Bird also loves to roll, roll, roll! He can make his way all across our living room bY rolling. He LOVES his walker, and spends a lot of time in it while I make his food, cook dinner, clean the kitchen, etc. He can kind of sit up on his own, but I would never leave him unattended because he kind of flops backwards when he gets tired.
Thomas is still going to bed usually by 8:00p.m. and waking up at around 7:00-7:30a.m. These past several nights he has been waking up a lot during the night, and I’m hoping this will end very soon. It seems like it was easier to get up all during the night when Thomas was a newborn or a couple of months old. But now that he is six months old, Momma and Daddy are wanting their sleep! During the day, he takes about four forty-five minute naps.
So far, Thomas has tried sweet potatoes, avocados, bananas, and plums! I don’t think he’s crazy about the avocados, but he’ll eat them if I mix them in with something else! Since he is now six months old, I’m going to introduce some cereal made from millet for him to have for breakfast. I am still nursing you, and I have been making his baby food myself. For the most part, I have really enjoyed doing it. I’m not sure how much Thomas’s Aunt Katie enjoys me doing it because I may call her twelve times a day a lot with tons of questions! I guess that’s what she gets for being the Book Worm who does all the reading on everything:) We’ll have to remember to get her a good birthday present this year.
Thomas was getting much better about going to “strangers”, who are really family members, but he treated them like strangers sometimes. He really was getting better about it, until we spent some time in Statesboro last week. He digressed rather quickly. Thomas would hardly have anything to do with anyone that wasn’t his M-o-m-m-a!! I thought we getting past that stage, but Thomas made it very clear that we weren’t. To this day, we have yet to leave Thomas with a baby-sitter (Grandma’s, Aunt’s, Friends, nursery workers….you name it, we’ve tried it) and things go smoothly. Heck, I wouldn’t even care if they went smoothly if they would just “go” at all! Thomas completely freaks out when he realizes that we are not around, and our time alone is cut short. It’s a good thing he’s so darn cute;)
Another thing I love about this age is that Thomas is very ticklish on his thighs and underneath his chubby cheeks. He giggles and laughs out loud anytime we tickle him. All we have to do is look at Thomas, and he just grins from ear to ear. “Jolly” is a good way to describe him! He has also started “babbling” more lately, and it is starting to sound more like “words” than just squeals. For example, a lot of times it sounds like he is saying “naa naa” or “ahhh”. He can look pick his pacie up off the ground and put it in his mouth, too.
All in all, six months is by far the most fun stage yet! We absolutely love being parents! It is incredible.
I am hosting a wedding shower for my dear friend Jenny this weekend, and then me and the boys are heading to the farmers market Saturday morning! Hopefully, we will find lots of fresh organic fruits and vegetables to put up in the freezer! And once I catch my breath from doing all of that, I have July 4th pictures to post!!! Be back soon:)
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