You, Mr. Ty, can be quite the handful at times...you are a serious baby, but you are lightening up a bit. It is much, much easier to get smiles and laughs out of you these days. You also LOVE to be held which can make life a little difficult at times, but we are figuring it out.
You are crazy about your big brother - you just light up when he comes in your sight. He loves to make you smile and laugh. Your big sister can make you smile too these days, but you are still a little worried when she comes around.
You have just about mastered sitting up on your own, which is great! It really makes playtime more fun for you I think. You also love to be on your belly, which is a welcome change. You can scoot in circles on your belly and push yourself way up on those arms. I'm just waiting for you to lift that little booty (not that I'm ready for you to crawl, by any means!).
You still enjoy your walker and your jumper too. It cracks me up to watch you jump like crazy and scoot yourself around the house in the walker.
(look at his legs!)
You, my baby boy, are obsessed with your mommy! It's definitely mutual though! You will be perfectly fine with your daddy, but as soon as I come into sight, you start whining until I come get you. You have even started reaching out for me. It can drive your daddy crazy at times, but I love it! It even makes me laugh in the middle of the night when you are crying with your daddy and immediately stop when I take you from him. You are a momma's boy for sure :) When you are in my arms, you will go in for a snuggle and rest your head on my shoulder or chest. It seriously melts my heart! And you love twirling my hair (and pulling it too!).
Your are in size 3 diapers still, and wearing mostly 9 months or 6-9 month clothes. You are a big boy - 19 lbs. We had to go to the doctor because you weren't feeling well last week so we got your weight. We will get your height and percentiles when we go this week for your 6-month check up.
So here's the thing though, you are a terrible sleeper :( We've tried many different things, but nothing has seemed to give us a lengthy stretch of sleep. You usually go down for the night around 7:30-8. I feed you and lay you down and you fall asleep pretty quickly on your own. I can pretty much count on you waking up at 11 PM. So that's a pretty good stretch, except 11 doesn't give me a very good stretch as I have things to do before I go to bed. I feed you at the 11 PM waking, and then you are pretty much up every 2 hours after that. I try to just rock or walk with you, but I usually just end up nursing you. I know that's not the right answer, but hey, we are all tired (and maybe that's why you are 19 lbs :). In fact, you are not really every truly awake throughout the night yet you aren't fully asleep. You are usually up for the day around 5:30-6, which is fine since we are up getting ready for work anyways. Hopefully the sleep turns around in the next month or so...
We also started some solid foods after Christmas. We started with rice cereal and then oatmeal. You seemed to like it on that first day, but now you are not into solids at all. We have introduced sweet potatoes, squash, peaches, and apples. Apples are the only one that you actually seemed ok with. I wouldn't say you loved them though. This is so interesting to me because your brother and sister never had issues with solid foods. So we are taking our time with them and eventually you will enjoy them (hopefully). You have been doing great with a sippy cup with a little bit of water in it with your solids though.
Ty you are a sweetheart and we are so happy to have you in our family - you have made us complete :) Love you Ty Ty! Happy 1/2 Birthday!
