Sweet Sketty - 6 months

This is about 3 weeks late since he's almost 7 months, but here's the highlights of our angel baby this month.

* Up on hands and knees, rocking back and forth

* The Half-Sit (perching on one hip and supporting self with arm)

* Army Crawling - we call him the Inchworm because he does a modified Army Crawl. If you've ever seen Cinderella picture the black cat Lucifer when he gets stuck in the dress sleeve and he's trying to catch Gus Gus. That's what Sketty looks like.

*He can sit on my hip now, but that doesn't seem to help my back pain from totin' him around all day.

His footprints at birth and 6 months. His feet are huge. And fat. And always sweaty.

He loves his mama. If I set him down and walk away he gets a little sad. If someone's holding him and I walk by without rescuing him he gets a little sad. If I sit on the couch and snuggle him all the time (which I do) he's perfectly happy. I don't mind at all because I know pretty soon he'll be super independent and won't really want me to hold him all the time. And besides, it makes me feel special that I'm still his favorite.

He likes to follow me into the kitchen while I'm cooking or cleaning.

Touched grass for the first time - didn't like it.

Loves to be naked, still. He is getting tricky when it comes to diaper changes too. As soon as you take off the diaper his hands are everywhere down there. He flips all over the place and kicks his legs everywhere. Naked time is his favorite time. I just love those little squishy buns. The kids always have to come squeeze his "bunny cheeks" when he's rolling around naked.

Hud is a great helper ^;^ Always drags the baby away from "danger" (or sometimes just because). Thanks Huddy.

Stetson weighed 20 lbs at 6 months. And although I don't know how long he is I do know he's more than half the length of Brynn. It looks like she's trying to hold a baby elephant when she totes him around.

He just started "talking", saying "Da Da Da" all day long. Now he's doing these short, high-pitched screeches. He loves to hear himself. I had to leave RS at church on Sunday cuz he was way too loud for class.

He's noisy when he's awake but recently he's started snoring while he's sleeping. It sounds like he's gonna blow the roof off. I had him asleep in his carseat in the store the other day and these two old ladies kept saying "What is that noise?" Hudson kept giggling because they didn't know it was coming from our baby.

I'll tell you what he's not doing:

not sleeping through the night (ever since he cut his bottom teeth he's been waking up to nurse at least once a night. I really want my good sleeper back.)

not napping ( my big plan when Tanner went back to work was to get this kid on a good napping schedule and so far we have not achieved that goal)

not eating anything (that one post about him loving baby food - that was a lie. I've only managed to feed him a total of two jars worth of carrots over the last 2 months. He has hated every flavor I've tried. He will suck on a salted pretzel stick like there's no tomorrow though.)

not really laughing yet (he'll give you a courtesy chuckle all day long but he's only done a big belly laugh once, and it was for Grandma.)