We finally had Elliott's six month check up on Monday. He's currently weighing in at 16 lbs 2 oz and measuring 2 feet 2 inches (I find the fact that he is about 2 feet tall extremely adorable). He is still mostly wearing 3 month and 3-6 month clothes with a few 6 month clothes coming on-line (most are still too big). This means a lot of what we have is very seasonally inappropriate, but it hasn't been a problem so far. Luckily he isn't (generally) a big spitter-upper or drooler, so most of the time he can wear his clothes more than once. He's even a pretty clean eater, so except for a very messy bib, he usually comes away from solid food meals unscathed.
Elliott's First Bite*:
As for locomotion, he's getting pretty good at getting himself where he needs to go by rolling and pushing with his feet. He's still quite a bit like a seal on land, but it really is impressive to watch him move about. He's lifting his whole torso off the ground and is trying to get his knees under him, so it looks like we should probably make an effort to put away the floor-prone baby hazards. He can also sit up on his own, but still leans forward to balance himself on his belly. I did notice yesterday, however, that he has started using his arms to keep himself in balance.
Now that we have our living room floor back and given how much more he can do on the floor, tummy time has increased to a significant portion of the play time during the day. In fact, yesterday I got out these printed blocks thinking he'd think they were fun to play with. Not only did he find them fun, he thought they were funny! He started laughing at them as soon as I started putting them out and laughed even harder when he knocked them over. I was able to get a bit on video (with a little giggle distraction from Jenny, too).
Giggle Blocks:
He's been talking more as well. He went through a period of time around five months where he didn't say a whole lot. He made lots of raspberries, but it was like he was trying to hard to make vocalizations, so nothing ended up coming out. Now, he seems more relaxed about it. We have lots of conversations after meals and usually after bath time while he's getting dressed for bed. More Ms and Ps are coming into play, so "mopah" has turned into something that gets said a fair amount.
Mopah:
As for things that he's into right now, here are a few:
1. He loves scratching things with his nails. Everything gets a good scratch to feel and hear the texture: the wall behind the changing pad, my jeans, the couch cover. You name it, he scratches it.
2. Playing with faces. He's always liked to touch my dad's face, but now he does it with just about everyone else, too. My face gets a good going over at pretty much every feeding.
3. He loves it when you make animal sounds...especially the ones he knows from the Einstein (cow, cat, duck, dog, lion).
4. He loves sucking the wash cloth during bath time.
5. He almost always will grab for whatever glass or mug you are drinking out of.
6. And Jenny. He can't get enough of her. He laughs and laughs when he sees her walking and running around.
He is however, not really into naps right now. We are trying to make napping in his crib the norm, but that usually doesn't go over all that well. Oh yeah! He's in a crib! We packed away the Pack and Play bassinet last weekend and set up the crib. He's done really well in it except for one night when he leg (up to the thigh) was stuck through the slats...we are working on a remedy to that solution that will make mama happy (so he won't get stuck) and daddy happy (so he won't suffocate on a bumper).
And his easy adjustment to his crib reminds me of another point I wanted to mention. I am still in awe at how well he adapts to change. When we moved into the hotel, I thought, man, there is no way he's going to sleep well tonight. It's a new place, we've only been here a few hours, the baby bed is completely different from his, etc. But the first night there, he went to sleep like a champ and slept 8 hours solid! I'm so used to Jenny and how sensitive she is to change that I guess part of me expected him to be the same way. But Elliott's a much more mellow soul. He seems to take things as they come and not get too worked up over changes and differences. And to that, all I can say is - thank you! ;)
*I'm trying a different way of uploading videos using Flickr rather than the Blogger uploader (which kept timing out on me and having trouble with these slightly longer videos). Let me know if this one doesn't work as well and I will go back to shorter videos using Blogger. I know when I've viewed Flickr videos before, sometimes you need to let it go through once and load all the way, then play it again for more seamless viewing.
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