Six Months

Eamon turned six months old yesterday and had his checkup today.

Vitals:
-Length- 28" (90th percentile)

-Weight- 15lb10oz (25th)

-Head- ~30th percentile

-Number of PA's who threatened to take him home - one, as always. He flirts with the poor woman, who then has to give him his shots...

-Blarking in the doctor's office - twice, just for me, since Dad had to work this time. Whee!

Updates since the five month post:

Now Eats: squash, peaches, bananas, oatmeal (on top of rice cereal, avocados, sweet potatoes), and is getting better with the sippy cup and insistently trying use normal glasses.

Can now say "dada".. as in "ahdada..dada...ahdadadadada", not as in "you, the guy who feeds me and changes my diapers". Laughs when upright (as opposed to only when on his back and getting tickled), starting to laugh for things like peek-a-boo.

Rolls over - CONSTANTLY. Will not stay where put. Darnit.

Is slowly working towards hands and knees, but spends most of his time on his stomach alternating between "skydiving" (on stomach, head and limbs out and "flying") and "landing" (checking out his surroundings, head and chest up). Ray's narration of this activity is on my "must get on video" list.. but here are a couple examples.

Skydiving.

And "landing".

(Holden for scale. :) It looks like Holden is also skydiving, but I'm pretty sure he was doing some much more coordinated and aimed scooting at the time. The twins have a little more directedness going on, which Eamon did not pick up. Although they did teach him to suck his thumb instead of his fingers, and Eamon taught them to stick their tongues out. Classy.)

And Fang is still there. Not doing much. We'll see. But the kiddo? Pretty darn cute, regardless.

photo courtesy of Crazy Uncle Steve