Our little love bug is 6 months old today and we couldn't be more in love! He has made our lives so much brighter and I'm so excited for a lifetime ahead of fun times with our little man. The last 6 months have flown by so quickly! It seems like yesterday he was kicking around in my belly. Here's a quick overview of what's been going on with our guy at 6 months:
TEETH - Today I noticed his first little tooth popping through on the bottom. I've noticed he's been chomping on everything in sight and this just verifies that he has been teething!
MOVEMENT - Everyone says he's advanced for his age in this category. He's been sitting up on his own for a while now, grabs at everything within a few foot radius and if there's something across the room he'll manage to worm his way over to it. He's on the verge of crawling, I give it a couple weeks. He's already getting up on his hands and knees and rocking back and forth. He loves to be on his stomach and we call him turtle because sometimes we'll walk in his room and his little head is poking up over the side of his crib or playpen looking at us. He loves to stand too, he's a strong little guy. He can hold himself up on our coffee table, we are trying to encourage him to crawl first because at times he seems just as close to walking.
LAUGHS - He LOVES to laugh! His Dad makes him laugh really hard all the time, just by looking at him! His huge toothless smile is the funniest, he is such a happy baby. He rarely cries and if he does it's usually for good reason like he's starving or bumped his head.
BOUNCING - He loves to bounce. Even when he's not in his bouncy he's jumping up and down.
EATING - I'm still mainly breast feeding but we have also introduced him to rice cereal and he loves avocados.
MR GRABBY HANDS - His favorite is when he sits in his Bebe Pod chair on the counter while Mommy prepares dinner. He'll grab at everything! The spoon I'm stirring with, the flour jar, bananas, whatever is within reach. And he LOVES paper. He rips the pages out of magazines while I'm reading them and the page goes straight to the mouth. He also has an obsession with remote controls and phones (typical boy).
SLEEP - He goes to bed at 8:30pm and sleeps until around 3am, then goes back to sleep until around 7 or 8am. He loves to sleep on his stomach. It's hilarious, sometimes I'll look in our monitor and Braydon's head is filling the screen, wide eyed looking straight into the lens, who knows how long he's been up for but he'll just be wide awake playing with himself in the crib. And he'll wrestle with his bear blanket. So funny!
TEMPERAMENT - He is still a super easy and mellow baby. He is pretty energetic and loves to play, hardly ever fusses, we can take him anywhere with us and he lets anyone hold him. He loves to people watch and is really attentive when someone is talking that's in the room. He'll look straight at you and make eye contact like he's attentively listening. He likes to fight naps and gets pretty hyper, we think he got that trait from his Daddy :)
BABBLE - He is a great communicator, he talks a lot, shrieking when excited and giving lots of goos and gees. He grunts a lot too.
LOOKS - We have no clue what color hair he will end up having because it's an array of colors right now, brown, blond and a tint of red. His eyes are still an ocean blue and his eyelashes are incredibly long! He always gets compliments on his eyelashes. He looks exactly like his Daddy, although we aren't sure if he got the famous dimples yet. He doesn't seem to have them so far but sometimes when he smiles real big it looks like there could be a hint of them there.
