This month Owen started solids! We started with rice cereal for a couple weeks. Then, when he got bored, we added sweet potatoes. We tried pear and banana first, but he wasn't fond of either yet. Sweet potatoes, on the other hand, are a real hit.
We hired a doula and are now sleeping much better. Daddy takes care of nighttime wakings because if Mommy goes in it's like saying to a candy addict "Look at all this wonderful chocolate. Now you should go to sleep and not eat any of it." In other words, it doesn't work so well.
While he started sitting up at the end of the fifth month, he's really perfected it in the sixth month...though he still requires some spotting. He's big on reaching for toys and sometimes that takes him down head first.
You may wonder why there aren't too many smiley pictures of him. Most of the time he smiles and moves and the same time...so the smiley pictures end up looking completely blurred. But we managed to get a couple this month of him while he wasn't moving too much. You can see how mobile he is, however, from the monthly pic with the boppy that Mommy attempted to make. Also pictured practicing early pickpocketing skills.
Other mad skills: Rolls over from back to front (reminder that he's been doing from front to back since 3 weeks), raspberries like a champ, reaches for everything, enjoys the telephone the most, plays piano while he eats, and gets onto all fours.
Height: 25 and 3/4 inches
Weight: 13 pounds 12 oz. (Apparently just has a very active metabolism because now that Mommy's back to work we're certain he's getting enough food. Gerber Good Start ended up being the formula of choice, though he really only gets 1 bottle of it a day the days Mommy is working.)
Head: 43cm
