Simon is 6 months

What Simon is doing

• loves to kick his legs and can make the bouncy seat bounce. 
• Grabs toys and chews on them
• likes tummy time 
• rolls over, but doesn't really do it tons 
• Sucking two of his fingers (he doesn't even need his blankie, that will be hard to break!)
• Eating solid food! 
• Sleeping LONG chunks at night YAY

Eats: Simon loves SOLID FOOD and cries when he has eaten all his food.  We started at 5.5 months.
Nursing: Nurses every 2-3 hours. He still nurses quick but is doing a much better job now that he isn't eating 6 times at night!
Solid food: Simon is doing a great job with solid food. He is ok with lumps and pretty thick texture. He eats three small meals a day (he scarfed down green beans today with no breastmilk)

• Loves: pumpkin, green beans, rice, oatmeal
• Verdict is still out on: 
• Introducing this week:carrots
• Need to try again: avocado (he spit up a lot when he ate it)

Sleeps: Chinese New year was major baby sleep boot camp. It went really well praise God! He was getting up 4-6 times a night before sleep training. We started before the holiday to get him to fall asleep on his own. Then we got him to midnight the first night, then 2am, then 4am then 6am! He has been going through a growth spurt so I have been feeding him at 4am the last few days. I can feed him once in the night for a while I feel like a new woman getting a good chunk of sleep! *update: a lot of teething pain for the little guy= lots of night waking again. Poor boy

Naps: He is taking 2-3 naps a day. He likes to nap in his bed. We are doing a little nap sleep training to get him past his 40 minute wake up. He has been doing very well the last two days. We have a very easy tempered little boy.  He doesn't' sleep that long in the Ergo anymore ;(

Weighs: 14.5 lbs (25.9 inches)

Likes: loves watching Rudy! loves his green blankie from grandma Susan, loves interacting with people, likes solid food and going for walks in the Ergo

Dislikes: being left alone, when Joy sits on him (can't blame him!)

Favorite event this month: loved having Grandma and Grandpa visit. What a treat!