Half-birthday!
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rivkaColin is six months old today.
You'd be hard-pressed to find a more cheerful, friendly, mellow baby. He loves to make eye contact with people and then beam at them. He has a surprisingly hearty, chuckling laugh. He really seems to be happy with the world.
And easygoing! I have no trouble showering while he's in my care. I just put him on the bathroom floor on a blanket and give him a toy, and he's perfectly content to play with the toy or grab his toes and gurgle. I can lie him on a blanket in the living room and fix breakfast for myself and Alex. There are definitely times that he expresses his desire to be held and carried around, or when he objects to lying down but is happy to sit up. But for the most part he is an undemanding boy.
He continues to enjoy sitting. He has a regrettable tendency to lean too far over reaching for a toy, at which point he topples. He flips from back to front and front to back with ease, and has started sort of getting up on his knees. Fortunately for my sanity, he doesn't appear to have the least idea of what comes next.
He drools in unbelievable quantities. And he still just has one tiny, tiny spot of white tooth broken through his gum. He has to be the slowest teether in the world.
He likes to gnaw on my chin. He likes to take my glasses off. He likes lap bounces like "The Grand Old Duke of York" and "Mother and Father and Uncle John." He likes songs with animal sounds in them. He likes a few of his books, but mostly seems more interested in chewing on them than hearing them. He likes to handle and examine toys. He really wants to hold anything made of paper. He is curious about anything I'm using - my dinner plate, for example, or my keyboard.
We started solids last week, after the twentieth time that he grabbed food off my plate. He was a little unsure about the first feeding, but quickly recovered. Now he goes after the brown-rice cereal with verve. We tried a little applesauce yesterday and got a mixed reception.
He continues to nurse really well and sleep fairly well. I don't really wake up all the way, but I think he eats two or three times a night. What he doesn't do, mercifully, is spend stretches of the night awake and alert. He wakes up a little, whimpers, feeds, and goes peacefully back to sleep. I can deal with that.
You'd be hard-pressed to find a more cheerful, friendly, mellow baby. He loves to make eye contact with people and then beam at them. He has a surprisingly hearty, chuckling laugh. He really seems to be happy with the world.
And easygoing! I have no trouble showering while he's in my care. I just put him on the bathroom floor on a blanket and give him a toy, and he's perfectly content to play with the toy or grab his toes and gurgle. I can lie him on a blanket in the living room and fix breakfast for myself and Alex. There are definitely times that he expresses his desire to be held and carried around, or when he objects to lying down but is happy to sit up. But for the most part he is an undemanding boy.
He continues to enjoy sitting. He has a regrettable tendency to lean too far over reaching for a toy, at which point he topples. He flips from back to front and front to back with ease, and has started sort of getting up on his knees. Fortunately for my sanity, he doesn't appear to have the least idea of what comes next.
He drools in unbelievable quantities. And he still just has one tiny, tiny spot of white tooth broken through his gum. He has to be the slowest teether in the world.
He likes to gnaw on my chin. He likes to take my glasses off. He likes lap bounces like "The Grand Old Duke of York" and "Mother and Father and Uncle John." He likes songs with animal sounds in them. He likes a few of his books, but mostly seems more interested in chewing on them than hearing them. He likes to handle and examine toys. He really wants to hold anything made of paper. He is curious about anything I'm using - my dinner plate, for example, or my keyboard.
We started solids last week, after the twentieth time that he grabbed food off my plate. He was a little unsure about the first feeding, but quickly recovered. Now he goes after the brown-rice cereal with verve. We tried a little applesauce yesterday and got a mixed reception.
He continues to nurse really well and sleep fairly well. I don't really wake up all the way, but I think he eats two or three times a night. What he doesn't do, mercifully, is spend stretches of the night awake and alert. He wakes up a little, whimpers, feeds, and goes peacefully back to sleep. I can deal with that.
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Date: 2009-08-09 10:17 pm (UTC)Witnesses agreed both seemed to be deliberate and the second seemed timed to 'is Momma looking?'.
Teething. Goodness. Teething is so random, isn't it?
He looks like a happy l'il guy.
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Date: 2009-08-09 11:22 pm (UTC)http://suzilem.livejournal.com/441941.html
Colin is so happy!
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Date: 2009-08-09 11:32 pm (UTC)A sure signal! Glad all is going so well and that he's an easy baby. He's certainly a charmer!
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Date: 2009-08-09 11:42 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-08-10 12:09 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-08-10 12:13 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-08-10 12:57 am (UTC)(The Half-Birthday Song)
He is adorable! :)
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Date: 2009-08-10 02:14 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-08-10 03:57 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-08-10 07:00 am (UTC)He has to be the slowest teether in the world.
Er, no, that would be Agent Weasel, who got her first tooth at 14 months.
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Date: 2009-08-10 09:08 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-08-10 10:27 am (UTC)("Is he good?")
That one where he's face down on the mat reminds me a little of Alex - big smile! - but my favourite is the gold-bead-eating. His eyes! So fantastic.
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Date: 2009-08-10 01:43 pm (UTC)Easy babies are so... EASY, aren't they?
Seriously! It's hard not to jump to the conclusion that I should have two or three more.
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Date: 2009-08-21 12:47 am (UTC)http://www.lakecreature.com/
Lake Harriet, by the way, is also home to The Little Guy. A fairy--or is he an elf--that likes behind a little door in a good sized tree. Kids have been leaving him letters for years, and he's been answering back. If Alex should ever want to write him, just let me know.