6 Months! (Continued)

Sweet Caleb, I can't believe you're 6 months old! This seems like a big milestone, and it's a little difficult to embrace the fact that you're growing up. I'm excited for each new thing you accomplish, but it's all happening too fast.

This month, you went on your first trip to the Smoky Mountains as a belated celebration of your daddy's birthday. (I'll post more about that trip later.)

At the beginning of this month, you started this "fake coughing" thing, which you seemed to think was pretty funny because you were always smiling as you did it, and would often laugh afterward.

When I feed you, you often grab at my face--at my chin, at my nose, but most commonly, you'll hang your hand from my lower teeth. This isn't done in an ugly manner, but appears to be how you like to show affection these days.

You laugh a lot, but sometimes it can be tough to tell if you're laughing or starting to get upset because you'll still be smiling.

For a little while, when we would go to kiss you on your mouth, you would grin, open your mouth and start shaking your head back and forth. I think this started because one day I was quickly kissing back and forth between your right and left cheeks, and you kept moving your head back and forth to catch me.

You're getting more hair, and I really love your fuzzy little head. You don't have any teeth yet, though you still drool a lot and try to stick everything in your mouth.

You often clasp your hands together, with arms bent and move hands back and forth toward your mouth. You have also started to grab for everything.

Sometimes you'll grab my ears or cheeks and pull your face toward mine. I'm not sure if you're trying to initiate kisses, but I like to think so. :)

These days you still love your jumperoo and Bumbo. However, your Bumbo is getting less use because you're now sitting on your own.

Your sitting skills have improved a lot this month. At first you could only sit if you had one or both hands on the ground too. Then, you would sit on your own for a bit, but then start to tip either forward or sideways. Now you sit pretty well and seem to have better posture while doing it than we do. You'll still tip over some, especially if you're trying to get a toy that's out of reach.

You caught your second cold this month--poor little guy. You had a runny nose, watery eyes, and a sad cough, but thankfully no fever. I hate it when you're sick because you look so pitiful, but you're a trooper and still seem pretty happy.

You love to stand, and at this rate, I think you might be pulling up on your own before you decide to roll from you back to your tummy. You seem close to pushing up in a crawling position. (This was all true as of your 6 month birthday.)

At your 6 month checkup today, which was about 1.5 weeks late, you were 16lbs 6oz and 27.25 inches long, putting you in the 25-50th percentile for weight and 75th percentile for height. My little boy isn't quite so little anymore! You did very well on your developmental testing, and we were given the go-ahead to start you on solid foods, which we're excited about. It will be so fun to see your reaction to so many new things. We love you little Caleb, and we're so proud to call you our son!