At his 6 month appointment, Luke was 29.4 inches long (off the chart for tallness), and 20.4 lbs (85th percentile. As I predicted, his weight gain is drastically slowing down as his height takes off, and he is beginning to stretch all those rolls out. Still no teeth or even any hint of them, despite his incessant mouthing.
Clothes: some 9 month sizes, but mostly 12 month for length; diapers Pampers size 2 during day, size 3 at night
So many new skills to report this time. He FINALLY decided to roll back over from his tummy to his back, making his stress level much less, and thus mine as well. All this time struggling with that task, and within 24 hours of acquiring the ability, I bet he had done it 30 times! and of course this means that he is now technically FULLY MOBILE, because he can roll anywhere. Yay for extra babyproofing!
His voice has really started to come into play. For a while, it seemed like he had altogether stopped much vocalizing, but that all changed recently. Now the ONLY way it seems he communicates is through very loud shrieks, squeals, and or screams. This comes out mostly when he is either very excited or very frustrated.
Sitting up unassisted is getting better. As of today he can sit completely on his own for up to about 1-2 minutes before losing his balance and falling to one side. when this happens the infamous pouty lip comes out. Adorable!
Crawling is just around the corner I can tell, because he spends a lot of his tummy time with locked arms trying to figure out how to get the legs up also. He then will give up, lay on his tummy, and try to inchworm his way to something. He surprisingly can make it a couple of feet this way.
He also had his first time in the outside swing, which he wasn't too sure about at first.
Biggest development though is the big boy is now eating off a spoon! On his 6 month birthday, I started with some rice cereal. now after two babies that could not stand the substance (one of which took 3 weeks to truly take any bites), I was all prepared for a battle. Little toot mouthed the first bite I poked in, looked thoughtful, grinned, and popped his mouth wide open for the second bite. Lee and I were truly shocked. It wasn't a fluke though, because since then we've added oatmeal, carrots and squash (the favorites), peas, green beans, and applesause.
Favorite games/toys: playing "airplane", assisted high jumping off of laps, peek-a-boo, tickling, giraffe and "beeterfly" chew toy
These are Luke's official 6 month photos, lovingly taken by Uncle Eric!
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