Christian's Six Month Checkup

Here are the stats from Christian's six month checkup:

Weight: 17.2 ponds (50th percentile)
Length: 25.5 inches (25th percentile)
Head: 47.5 cm (100th percentile)

He's grown by 3/4 of an inch and 2.2 pounds in the past two months.

Christian is still not crawling, but he rolls all over the place. He can sit up on his own for a few moments before tumbling over in a move that would make any stuntman proud. :)

He's doing okay with his rice cereal. I try to give him cereal in the mornings and evenings. Sometimes he's in the mood for it, other times his mouth is closed tighter than Fort Knox. We can introduce one new food a week (to help us better detect food allergies). And so this weekeend, we'll start our little sweet pea on some sweet peas.

We've been working with him on the sippy cup (we're going to bypass using a bottle for water / juice, etc. and go straight for the sippy cup) and he's starting to grab it and bring it towards his mouth. Our one advantage is that he likes to bring pretty much anything to his mouth to chew / suck on ... including the sippy cup.

Christian continues to sleep through the night - yay! He pretty much wakes up any time after 5:30am. And he's usually babbling to himself or making some other self-entertaining noises. So, we just stay in bed and listen to him in his crib ... its so cute! And there is nothing better than peering into the crib and having a happy, smiley baby look up at you first thing in the morning.

Jennifer