Milestone

At a little over 6 months, Parker is starting to sit! i can't believe he's sitting and playing with toys already. i watch him with so much joy and i am so grateful to have such a wonderful baby whose been a blessing to have in our lives. 

6 months

my little baby is still little, but 6 months old now. he is precious beyond words and i could not love him more. at 6 months, Parker's stats are:

Weight: 15 lb 8 ounces

Height:

Favorite books: baby animals and baby colors - i noticed that he gets really into the books and loves looking closely at the pictures. in the baby animals book, there are tabs on each page that you can pull out to reveal the answer to the question asked on each page, Parker would crab the tabs and with a little assistance, would pull it out. it's amazing to me. 

Tummy time: he doesn't mind tummy time anymore and continuously roll from his back to his front all the time. being so much stronger, he's completely fine lying on his tummy for an extended period of time.

Separately anxiety: Aey apparently says Parker is starting to get separation anxiety, i didn't really notice leading up to 6 months, but def noticed it last week when he was a few days over 6 months. he'd cry real tears when i wasn't by his side for a few minutes. maybe he was being fussy that day, because i don't notice it anymore. i found it both cute and alarming at the same time. cute cuz i was flattered that he wanted and needed me, but alarming because i disliked the stage preston went through when he'd cry every morning when i was leaving for work. it was heartbreaking and i was late a lot because of it. 

Eating: we had to take a step back from solids leading up to 6 months. Parker was constipated a lot, and so we switched to an all veggie and fruits diet. it helped him i admit and he eventually started having bowel movements again on his own. took about a good month to work through it, and it was agonizing every day waiting for him to get back to normal. so lesson learned, take it very very slow when switching a breastfed baby to solids. i think due to this issue the past month, Parker didn't get as much weight as he could've and so he's fallen to the 10-15% :( height wise, he's in the 75% :). he has tried avocado, dragon fruits, and peas this month, as he enjoys all three! 

i'd say starting from about 4/5 months or so, he stopped spitting up and having to be burped as much. we finally got the carpet in his room cleaned because here was milk spit up everywhere. i am so glad that phase is over. getting baby Parker to burp took a long time and a lot of effort, i do not miss it. 

Bedtime: these days, it can be as early as 8am. wow. i will take that every night please. i am finding more time to work on this, like this blog now :) he's not exactly sleep trained as he falls asleep on me while nursing after bath time. but when he does wake up a little when i put him down, he quickly falls back to sleep. my heart sinks when he doesn't because i really want to get some things done at night! Parker's sleeping through the night for the most part, but due to the constipation, he was waking up once a night to nurse, and sometimes i pick him up to nurse so he can get some extra milk in his body. his milk intake has def decreased since starting solids. the doctor said as long as he's getting 16 oz in 24 hours, it should be fine. so with night time nursing, i think we are there.  

he certainly looks happy, and we're so glad he's got through his tough month like a trooper!