Phin turned 6 months earlier this week. We were a little late getting his picture so he was a few days past his half birthday for the photos below. He had his 6 month check up this week and he weighs 19 pounds 2 ounces and is 28 inches long. That puts him in the 79th percentile for weight and the 92nd percentile for height. We think he would have weighed more...but he is just getting over his first cold and his lower weight was likely due to his lack of appetite...and the large amounts of milk he threw up all over his mama multiple times a day.
He is still wearing size 3 diapers. He is sporting mostly 9 and 12 month clothes these days...although he still fits in some 6 month bottoms. He has become quite the talker and will often chatter before he falls asleep. He is babbling...mostly reduplicated with /d/...which means he is saying dada. My mom swears that he has said "Nona" and I think I may have heard "Mama" a time or two. One of his nicknames this month was ARCHIE because he has perfected arching his back...usually when you don't want him too. He has become quite a bit more mobile and can maneuver all over to get where he wants to.
His mobility is also making it a little bit harder to get his pictures as demonstrated below.
He is still a pretty good sleeper...except when he was sick. There were a couple of nights where he was waking up each time that he coughed...which was ever half hour to hour. It was miserable...and made us realize how lucky we have been to have him sleeping through the night since he was 6 weeks old. The past two nights he has been back to his normal self...and we are very grateful.
Phin loves music. He loves when I sing to him...even though I don't have a great singing voice. He also loves to listen to music with his daddy and getting pretty good with his dance moves.
We started introducing solid foods again. He doesn't seem to mind rice cereal mixed with breast milk. We have started to add mix a little bit of other foods into that and he is starting to adjust.
But what he likes even more than food is the taste of his bib. At almost every meal he manages to get it up in his mouth to chew on. When I am not feeding him fast enough he puts his face down on his bib and licks up the food that didn't quite make it in his mouth.
He also likes to bend over and chew right on his booster seat chair.
He has gotten to that stage where he prefers to be down on the floor rolling around rather than in our arms.
He has discovered his toes this past month and can often be found playing with them...
or playing with toys with them.
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We couldn't resist buying him a flannel shirt and a hat just like Seth's.
Phin continues to find very interesting ways to sleep. Our favorite moments are when he falls asleep on our shoulders.
He is getting pretty good with his hands and likes to play with his toys when he is in his car seat.
We got a few fun pictures of him around Thanksgiving. I had a grand vision of getting a turkey that weighed the same amount as Phin. It took quite a bit of perseverance...apparently there was a shortage of large turkeys this year. I finally found this 20 pound Butterball at Costco. Phin weighed pretty close to 20 pounds before he got his cold. So here is a shot of our two Butterballs.
Don't those drumsticks look delicious.
Seth thinks Phin looks like a body builder in the picture below. It cracks us up when he flexes all of his muscles this way.
We put up our Christmas tree last Saturday. Phin loves to look at the lights. Most nights we can be found gathered around the Christmas tree watching the lights and listening to Christmas music. We are pretty blessed.
