Dear Little Man
Today you are 6 months old. Half a year! As I type we are experiencing a serious blizzard outside and it's something like minus 32 degrees. And you wanted to be born here, are you nuts!
This last month started well with your first Christmas, which although you were a little too small to appreciate it, you did unwrap one or two things and youve certainly enjoyed playing with the various toys Santa brought you since. Your favourite thing to do is bounce in the doorway in your `Jolly Jumper`.
Youve also been experimenting with foods and are eating well. I finally got you to agree to drink from a bottle and you are having the odd bit of formula which you are fine with. How much longer we keep breastfeeding I do not know but you are definitely thriving!
You are still not rolling although yesterday you did manage to get onto your side attempting to grab a rattle. You can sit virtually unaided for a few seconds, and you babble incessantly! On Christmas Eve you said MAMA but you havent repeated it since.
Sleep wise you are still A BIT OF A NIGHTMARE YOUNG MAN (I say that sternly but lovingly!). You had a brief spell of waking only once during the night, but we are now back to 4 or 5 times. 4 OR 5 TIMES !!! I wish I knew why. I keep saying its to do with teething as you are frantically gnawing on your fists but there is no sign of those little pearly whites as yet. You seem to like your brave new world (as your dad calls it) of the new big crib and have gone to sleep watching your aquarium twice now, which is nice. Last night, however, at 5am you decided to wake up and would not go back to sleep and your kind daddy brought you downstairs to your swing to allow your sleep deprived mummy a few extra hours!
You have unfortunately been mostly housebound this last month. I hate not being able to take you for a walk every day, but it`s simply too cold. And we have all also been afflicted with some kind of lurgy that has meant we haven`t been anywhere else much either. I worry you are not being stimulated enough by your surroundings when you`re stuck here day in day out only seeing us, but Daddy says I`m being silly. Let`s look forward to better weather though!
Posted by katie at January 22, 2005 11:35 AM