6 Months

Xavier turned 6 months. Wow.

 At the doctor's appointment this week, it turned out that he's still a bit on the wee side, at 16lbs, but he's strong and active. He still loves to stand. His 6th tooth broke through earlier this week. Here's hoping an early start to teething means an earlier end. He started scooting, but he doesn't do it often. He's starting to get that he needs to put his backside high in the air to crawl, so he's starting to figure it out... he's so close, but yet so far from crawling. He started sitting on his own unassisted... but doesn't do it often because he's much too busy for that. He'd rather be trying to move. His sleep has finally started getting better, but after a couple of weeks of good sleep, he starts teething again and it all goes to pot for a week or so. 

Solids have really started to be fun over the last couple weeks. He'll eat the purees; he's content with them. But what he really wants is the real food, so we've started letting him while we watch him carefully to make sure he's not taking too big of bites or choking. (So far, big bites have been a problem, but not choking.) He has had roasted apples, bananas, avocados, and a pancake so far. 

We've talked through our childcare plan for while I'm in school. I never imagined it happening, but I'm going to be a stay at home mom from 8-5, and then 2 days a week and in the evenings (more often during finals week) I'll have classes and study time. We'll see how it goes.

Today was rough. He's teething, and not sleeping well because of it. And on top of that it seemed like he had an ear infection. So everything was put on hold and all we did today was nap and try to keep him comfortable, but he was just so unhappy most of the time, especially when he first woke up. It was like the early days with him, where on bad days after Kenneth went back to work, moving from the bedroom seemed like a monumental task-- all he and I did was eat and sleep. So happy to be past that most days. Most of the time he's a wonderful, happy, silly little boy. Love him.

Other exciting things to come, more later.

Avocado... FUN!