Nicolai is 6 months old today. And, as you can see, he's still loving life.
He's shot up to over 16 pounds now, which puts him all the way up to the 25th percentile for weight (up from 6% or so). It's amazing how much faster babies grow when they keep their food in their tummies (he appears to have outgrown his reflux issues in the past couple weeks)! We're rather thrilled about that. :-)
He isn't rolling over yet, but he's close. He might be better at it if we put him on his tummy more, but we suck at that, as he's just starting to like spending time on his tummy. He might end up being one of those kids that goes straight to sitting and standing, bypassing the whole rolling/crawling stage. He does like to sit and stand an awful lot.
We started solids a few weeks ago, and progress on that front is slow. I'm a little surprised he hasn't taken to them more quickly, given how quickly and easily he's taken liquid nourishment in all forms. We're getting there, though. He's also got an incipient tooth (teeth actually--he's got two blisters on his gums, but one clearly has a white spot under it), but doesn't so far seem too bothered by it. In fact, he's a pretty damn happy baby. He got over his cold/ear infection rather quickly and as long as he's fed he's pretty much been Mr. Smiley-Happy-Squirmy nonstop for the past few weeks. One thing they never told me about having kids is, yeah, you may be sleep deprived, but mornings are a heckuva lot more fun when the first thing you see is someone so darn happy to see you. In some ways I wouldn't mind him staying just the way he is right now. Happy, healthy, portable, easy to feed, easy to please. I feel no need to change things at this point. ;-)
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