The Jambers Jamberee: Carter: 6 months

Carter,

You have become one of the happiest boys, and your toothless grin can capture anyone!

At your 6 month appointment, you weighed in at 17.6 lbs (50%) and were 27 inches long (74%). You are still in all 6-9 month clothes and still toothless. Your doctor says she THINKS a tooth MIGHT be coming in, but who knows! You have now started to eat baby food and have loved pretty much everything but avocado. The good fruits are coming in the next few days, and I can only imagine how much you will love those. You still have oatmeal in the morning, which you probably could live without, food for dinner, and 4 bottles.

You are FINALLY sleeping through night, woohoo! We let you cry it out once and since then, you were good to go. Some nights you wake up, cry for about 3-5 minutes, and then fall back asleep so I'll take it. You go to bed usually between 8-8:30 and now a days have been waking up earlier between 6:30-7. I'm not sure what started this, but I hope it doesn't last long. You normally take 3 naps, but if you wake up early, you might get 4!

This past month, you have mastered army crawling. You can get wherever you want, and you are pretty quick, too! There are times when you get up on all fours, but you haven't put two and two together yet. You can also sit without needing anything behind you. If you are sitting and spy a toy that is in front of you, you usually fly forward from your bottom and crawl to get it. It's kind of a funny sight. Just recently, you have pulled yourself up a couple of times when you play in your car. I'm going to blink, and you will be walking.

You absolutely love toys - not necessarily to play with but to put in your mouth. There is not a single toy that you haven't tried to shove in there. You still love your exersaucer and have loved your toy car since daddy put it together. When you are content, I can lay you on the floor, and you will entertain yourself for about 30 minutes crawling and rolling from toy to toy, tasting each one. I think your brother's Paw Patrol rank up there with the best ones to eat. The only bad thing about you on your tummy is that you are guaranteed to spit up. You, for the most part, are pretty good until you are on your tummy.