Nicholas is now 6 months old! Time is literally FLYING by. Can't believe it! We had another great month. Nicholas is now a master of rolling from his back to his belly and back again. Since he isn't crawling yet, he uses this rolling method to get from point A to B. He is getting pretty good at it! He also figured out that if he is on a blanket on the floor and there is a toy on the blanket that he can't reach, he can pull the blanket toward himself to get the toy. My son is a GENIUS people.
He is very interested in his surroundings lately. When he hears a new noise, he looks toward whatever it is. Sometimes he gets scared and cries if he doesn't understand. He is also starting to exhibit some "Stranger Danger" and cries when new people or people he hasn't seen in awhile try to hold him. After a few minutes, he loves new people and flashes them lots of smiles.
We took an impromptu trip to Florida this month. Just like last time, Nick did great on the flight. He also made friends wherever we went, including (but not limited to) the airport, the plane, the rental car place, restaurants {Hooters girls love him} and hotels. He even got us an upgrade on our room to a King suite. At least the kid is finally starting to earn his keep :) He also got to visit Grandma Mindy and Pappy Keith and meet his Aunt, Uncle, and cousins. Oh, and he got to see the ocean for the first time. We woke him up from a nap to take him on the beach so he wasn't too thrilled.
Nick is becoming quite the talker. He babbles all day long! He also lets us know when he is not pleased about something by HOLLERING at us. Can't imagine where he got that from :) Usually he stops crying/carrying on if you just get up and give him a change of scenery. He can definitely have a bit of an attitude, which is so cute. It looks something like this:
He still sleeps pretty well, but we are struggling a little bit with trying to break him from sleeping in the swaddle blanket. We want him to be able to move freely around his crib, which is hard for him to do when he is wrapped like a mummy. If we put him down unswaddled though, he doesn't seem to feel secure enough and he wakes up crying after a short time. So, we went back to swaddling him. Trying to do naps during the day with no swaddle and also putting him down with one arm unswaddled at night to ease him into the feeling of being totally unswaddled. Hopefully he is feeling better about it within a few weeks.
He got pretty good at eating oatmeal and continued to show interest in our food, so we started him on vegetables the week of his 6 month birthday. His first vegetable was green beans, which he really likes. He tries something new every 3 days (to make sure he isn't allergic.) To date he has tried green beans, peaches, peas, and bananas. Tomorrow we are switching the vegetable to carrots. We really hope to teach him good eating habits so that he likes vegetables more than mom and dad.
We decided this month that we are going to take a bit of a leap and move to the Boston area. I was offered a promotion at work, and its a great opportunity, so we are going for it. Nick has been great about letting us work on the house. We have about 1 more weekend worth of work to get done before we can get the house listed and on the market. Hopefully we can find a buyer for it! This will be an exciting new adventure for our family! We will be a bit sad to leave Fort Wayne- this is the place where Nicholas had so many firsts.... but we are looking forward to new challenges too.
He is generally a really happy baby. It is pretty easy to get him to smile and laugh, which we do all the time. There is nothing better than his laugh. He is just under 17 lbs and is now up into the 50th percentile for weight and height. He had been on the short side the last few checkups, so we were glad to see he got a bit taller. No teeth yet, but he drools up a storm all the time so we keep thinking we will see one soon. Every day with him is so rewarding. Josh and I feel very lucky to be his Mommy and Daddy!
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oh my gosh, he is sooooo cute!!!!!
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