Half a Year Already

Trenton,

This past month has been a huge month for you! Your little body has been going through a giant growth spurt, along with teething even more than usual so you have been sleeping a whole lot more. Which we aren’t complaining about at all :) But you have also been very whiny and clingy to Mommy, which I know makes Daddy a bit sad…but we both know soon enough you will want nothing to do with me and want to be just like Daddy, so personally, I am soaking up all this extra love now.

You had your first Fourth of July this month though! This summer has been a VERY wet summer and has been raining almost every day. And of course it rained the entire holiday weekend so we didn’t even get to go swimming :( Aunt Stephanie was in town though! And she loved all over you. We also went to a Braves game for the Fourth. Your second baseball game; but of course it was pouring the first half of the game. Luckily it dried up the second half and you enjoyed it. Although we had two really close calls with foul balls. Really scary moments for me! There were fireworks at the end of the game and you slept through the entire show except for the finale. But you enjoyed it. Once it was done you were looking around for more :)

Your new things this month:

-You give big monster hugs and kisses! You throw your arm back and then swing in for big hugs and kisses, which really consists of you blowing spit bubbles on our faces and necks. But it’s so cute and I love coming home to your giant monster hugs and kisses. The highlight of my day!

-You’ve been going to the church nursery on Sundays and I am sad to say you are “that” kid who cries in the nursery unless he is being held. You also don’t like it when other kids are crying. But you will get better.

-When nursing, you are practicing your acrobatics already because you always have to have your legs up by my shoulders. Even when you sleep in our bed, you have to have your legs up or you get mad. Silly boy….

-Lately you have discovered that you can fake cough and you think it is pretty darn funny. You also think its fun to scream now.

-You have figured out if you bang your toys down, they make noise. So guess what you have been doing lately? :)

-Your infant car seat doesn’t fit in Daddy’s car, so this month you got a big boy car seat! It looks very comfortable too

-Over the holiday weekend we started on solid foods! Your faces still are such a crack up, but you seemed to enjoy it! So far you have tried avocado, carrots, bananas, and broccoli. We have been doing a mixture of purees and large chunks for you to “chew” yourself. You do very well with both. Except you would much rather feed yourself with the spoon than have me or daddy feed you. You always grab the spoon and stick it right in your mouth. Smart boy :)

 Your first time eating carrot sticks

 Your first time having solid foods! Yummy avocado :)

-Since you have been going through this giant growth spurt, in just three weeks you went from your 0-3 month clothes fitting just fine with a good amount of growing room to fitting into your larger 6 month clothes! We just got you a bunch of summer 3-6 month clothes but now I’m wondering if you are just going to skip that size and go straight to 6-9 month clothes!

-One of my favorite new discoveries you have had lately is the discovery of your hands and that you have full control of your fingers. You just sit there and wiggle and wave your hands in front of your face like it is the coolest thing in the world. You are mesmerized and it is so cute. I just wish you would let me video it!

Your 6 month appointment was sadly a mixture between your regular checkup and a sick visit because you have not been feeling well this week at all :( It turns out you have a bad cold which caused a double ear infection. This is your first time being sick and we don't like it at all :( But even though you are sick, you are still a happy baby! You just want to play while being held instead of playing by yourself....You got a prescription for Amoxicillin for your ear infections and your first night taking it, I think it gave you a new-found sense of energy because you were up happy as can be from about 11pm to 3am! Mommy and Daddy are so tired....

We decided to postpone your 6 month shots because you are sick, but at your visit this time you shot up in weight! You only grew 1/4 inch in height though so now you are 25 1/4 inches tall and 14 lbs 13oz! Apparently you are a small little guy because according to the CDC charts you are only in the 9.75th percentile for weight and 14th percentile for height. Of course that chart is really geared toward formula fed babies and not breastfed. You are pretty normal to us :)

Trenton, when you grow up and are hopefully reading these letters, I want you to know just how amazing your daddy is. I'm sure there will be many arguments between all of us over the years, but you have the best father in the entire world. I hope you grow up watching him and learning how to be a real man from him. I pray you will learn from him how to treat women and your future wife and children. He is the greatest husband I could ask for and I am so very blessed to be called his wife. And you, my son, are the most precious gift we could ask for.


Love Always,

Mommy