Gummy Bear: 6 Months Old

Gummy Bear has been growing way. too. quickly. these last few weeks! At his six month checkup today he weighed 18 pounds 13 ounces (72%), measured 27.5 inches long (82%), and his head was 45cm (90%). He still has a gigantic cranium! And he's definitely a long baby. My mom encouraged me to buy a pair of Osh Kosh B'Gosh overalls at a yard sale, and when I pulled them out yesterday they just looked like they would be balloon pants on him. The nurse said his BMI was about 50%, so he has chub... he just puts most of his energy into getting taller!

It makes sense that he is in high percentiles because he LOVES to eat. He eats rice cereal or oatmeal, a variety of baby fruits and baby veggies. He loves all of them, and recognises the jars now when we open them. The only one he maybe doesn't like is the carrots. I don't know if it's a texture thing or what, but he always makes tons of goofy faces and noises when we feed them to him. He also loves formula, though, and for the most part holds his own bottle... until he gets bored, and then it becomes Mom's job again.

He still loves his bunny rattle and his elephant toy, and preference towards eating cloth over smooth toys. Sometimes he is perfectly content to just chew on a burp rag. On the other hand... he is getting very opinionated! If he doesn't want to play with a certain toy, then he just ignores it. If he is done sitting in the walker, then he will let us know. He is always a busy little boy, moving here and there and eating this and chewing that, talking or squealing or smacking toys on things, smiling and whining... When he's whining he puts his head down on the floor, kind of like in the picture above, being a drama queen! We just shake our heads at him and tell him he's silly.

He is quickly getting mobile. He rolled everywhere for a while, and now he army crawls across the room with record speed. A couple of days ago he started to crawl on top of things instead of just crawling up to them and touching them. I was sitting on the floor, and suddenly he was crawling over the walker (it was collapsed), around and over my lap, and then over to and on top of the humidifier. Today we caught him pulling himself up on his knees while using the walker as leverage. My mom made a guess that he would skip formal crawling (hands and knees instead of army crawling) and go right to walking... I suspect she could be right!

The johnny jumper is one of his favorites, too. He will stand in that for a while, walking forwards and around and dancing when he gets excited. The best doorway for the jumper is our bedroom door, and just inside the door is the cabinet we got to store his clothes, the sheets, and the towels. He has figured out how to open the lower cabinet doors, and he pulls out the washcloths and eats them and throws them on the floor. We had the ironing board tucked between the cabinet and the wall, but he found that and pulled it out. We're pretty sure he dropped it on his toes once, so that is now sitting out in the hallway. If you help him stand up by hold his hands, he wobbles a lot but he loves to walk forward. Sometimes he will pick up one foot really high and forget to move the other foot, and we just walk him around and laugh and laugh!

He still charms everyone everywhere we go, and still loves to flirt with the ladies. In Walmart today, for example, I went up to refill a prescription and the lady in the pharmacy caught sight of him as I was walking up and she smiled at him and talked to him for a minute before she said, "Oh, I'm sorry. What can I do for you?" I just laughed. He loves attention and has definitely figured out what he needs to do to get it. We love him so much!

Oh yeah-- he drools a ton, but no sign of teeth yet!