Half a year! Let me repeat myself: half a year! Cannot believe Small Fry has reached the six month mark. His personality is unfolding more and more each day -- he's vibrant and funny. He loves to laugh and watch others laugh. He's a constant smiler (a boy after my own heart!). And he is so slow to anger. While just about anyone can make him smile and laugh, he reserves his loudest belly laughs and his broadest grins for Fawn. He is absolutely obsessed with Fawn. It is too cute! And, now that Small Fry is getting closer to true playing, Fawn is much more interested in hanging out with him. Fawn loves to help Small Fry with the ball popper and stacking toys. Shocking to me, he is happy to continuously build towers for Small Fry to knock down. He delights when Small Fry sends the blocks flying.
We've been busy! We've been swimming up a storm. Many days I just let Small Fry play outside the pool with me or my mom or grandmother, but when we get him in the pool he loves it. We've also been to the tot lot and Overton Park, where Small Fry loves in the baby swings. We've been to the zoo, to the library, and to the McWane Center several times. Small Fry is becoming much more aware of his surroundings and genuinely seems interested in our activities these days. He's even more content running errands now that he can sit in the front of a shopping cart.
Bring on the food! I caved when Small Fry was five and a half months old and started him on solids. I was so resistant to the idea of starting them before six months, but he was showing all of the readiness signs and also seemed starving. Nights were become more and more fragmented with cries of hunger. And he was trying to nurse constantly -- even once leaving my arm with a massive hickey. Hilarious! So, we started with rice cereal which he absolutely loves. We're keeping the quantity pretty low for now, but he has done great. We've also introduced bananas (loves), apples (hates -- he makes the funniest sour face), pears (pretty yummy), carrots (loves), sweet potatoes (loves) and mango (hates -- another slightly different face of disgust). Like I did with Fawn, I'm making all of his baby food. It really is simple, and I love doing it. Fawn's been a big helper in this department too! Right now I am offering food twice a day -- lunch and dinner.
Small Fry is an active baby. He's doing great with the sitting up and really seems eager to crawl. He can pull up to standing. And, several times has stood up only to immediately fall down because he stood up without holding onto anything. Silly boy! I guess because he watches Fawn's antics, he thinks he can do things he's not physically ready for. He's crazy in his crib at night -- flipping and turning this way and that. I never know in what position I'll find him! And, he hates being flat on his back so he is constantly practicing his version of the baby crunch. When the baby fat wears off, this boy will have some abs.
Small Fry survived his six month pediatrician appointment. He's topping the scales at 19 pounds, 9 ounces which puts him in the 85th percentile. His head is still huge -- 19 inches and 97th percentile. His length -- we're just not sure. Anyone with a baby knows how precarious the length measurements of a squirming baby are! They measured Small Fry at the exact same length as our previous appointment (26.5 inches, which puts him in the 50th percentile). That clearly isn't right -- just not sure if last time's measurement was too long or this time's measurement was too short. Time will tell -- and it's really insignificant. Small Fry is growing and thriving!
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