My sweet little baby...
You are growing and developing so fast. Last week you mastered your abdominal muscles and began sitting up, and this week you are already practice crawling. It is adorable to watch you grunt and groan whilst you slowing push yourself up onto your hands and knees. Then slowly, ever so proud of yourself, you rock back and forth. Elliott was 11 months old when he first crawled. How different these boys are!
It will only be a short time until you are moving about the house. Terrorizing areas that your older brother still has not discovered.
And then...we are all in trouble. I can sense that your calm, happy personality is a simple disguise. Underneath it all you are dead set on the things you want. You smile and laugh at me all the while reaching for things over my shoulder that should be out of your grasp. You never loose an opportunity to grasp for things in your reach and even slightly beyond.
You have THE loudest voice. I am certain that it was specifically crafted to ensure that I dont ever let you cry it out. It is particularly shrill and piercing when you dont like what is being done to you (putting you to sleep, putting you down when you want to be carried or picked up, or forcibly removing you from my breast because you like to gnaw and clamp down on it).
You have an infectious smile and laugh, and LOVE it when kids or adults are right up in your grill. The more activity that is going on, the happier you are. When it is just you and I at home--you are bored and cranky.
At your 6 month appointment you were still getting over a nasty bout of Herpangina. As such you hadn't eaten well in several days. So, you dropped from the 90% for weight down to the 50%. It was heartbreaking to hear the doctor sound concerned about the shift from one arch on the growth graph to a lower arch. You are still tall at 27 1/2 inches (75%). 18 pounds 8 ounces isn't anything to worry about, but it is smaller than your brother at this age.
I have been trying to feed you solids for more than a month now, and you have little interest in them. You will eat several bites. Then gag down a few more. Then refuse to eat more than that. You have eaten banana, avocado, sweet potatoes, peas, apples, pears, rice and lentils. Fruit seems to be your least favorite and rice cereal your top pick. As soon as your get some teeth we can expand your diet a bit more too.
It is bittersweet watching my baby grow and develop. I love you sweet boy.
