Happy Half Birthday!

A lot can happen in six months. It seems like just yesterday we were strapping Little Man in his car seat for his very first ride home...and now those same car seat straps are straining as we wrestle him in before going on an adventure.

Some stats on our baby boy on his sixth month birthday:

--He weighs 23.6 pounds and is 27.5 inches long. That's the 99th percentile for weight, and 90th for height. And for those of you who miss the days of produce comparisons, he weighs the equivalent of 2 average size pumpkins.
--He wears size 18-24 month clothes. That is, when he wears clothes. His favorite state of being is naked.
--His favorite toys include a play rotary phone, an elephant that makes a crinkle sound, and anything that has buttons and Daddy plays with, too.
--He's still working on the sleeping thing, although it has gotten better. He's averaging 9 hours a night, waking up to eat after about 6 hours. We finally got the boppy out of the crib, and now Little Man sleeps most happily on his tummy.
--Speaking of tummy, he can get there from his back, but is still perfecting the tummy to back roll. I know he can do it, because occasionally I'll look down at him and he'll be in a different position than where he was a moment before. He's just very stealthy about it. Another one of his stealth moves: he manages to pull himself into a sitting position when he wakes up from a nap. I've never seen it, but I know when he does it because I hear him on the monitor, snuffling around and then making his happy noises.
--He's a great eater. He loves his mealtimes, and eats all different types of baby cereals, apples, bananas, peas, sweet potato, and squash. Squash is his favorite. He hates carrots, and removes them from his mouth with his hands when I feed them to him.
--He loves music. His two current favorites are Prince's "1999" and the classic "Wheels on the Bus". He's obviously very well rounded.
--He has an uncanny ability to mimic his father's expressions and mannerisms. He's a little clown in training.
--He's genuinely a happy baby. He's a confident, inquisitive little creature and he changes every day. It is so wonderful to see him so healthy and advancing in his life, but all those changes are a little bittersweet too. So we're trying to enjoy every little moment--even the ones that happen at 3 AM.

Happy Half Birthday, Little Man.