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September 27, 2008
Owen at 6 months
Owen turned 6 months old on Monday. On Tuesday, he started pulling up on things. I'm mostly impressed by his ability to hold his entire weight including his massive, attention getting thighs, off the ground. And yet he makes no effort to roll off his back, preferring to just screech until someone rescues him and sets him back on his ass. Go figure.
His night sleeping is still, well, unpredictable. He'll have enough good nights in a row that I start thinking he's finally mastered this whole not waking up thing, and then we'll have a night like last night where he was up every twenty minutes from 9:45 til 2. NOT COOL, Little Man.
On the other hand, his daytime sleeping is going freakishly well. He goes down fairly easily, stays asleep solidly, and wakes up happy. Should he experience nappus interruptus, he wakes up happy for a while, and then goes down for another nap earlier and sleeps longer.
On Thursday, he had his 6 month well check. He was 17 pounds 12 ounces fully clothed, although Rex swears the scale is wrong and he weighs at least 25 pounds. Height-wise, well, he shrank. The nurse measured him first at 25.5 inches, and then again at 26. I watched, she did a careful job, but that still puts him shorter than the 26.25 from 2 months ago. Ah, well, the boy was gonna be short anyway, might as well get him used to it now.
Then the boy got the requisite three shots. He of course screamed until I picked him up again, and then he snuggled into me, turned around and gave the nurses the stink eye. For the rest of the day he was fairly angry at the world and mostly only content when I held him close.
Owen's latest trick is biting. Me. In a rather delicate, but necessary for nourishment kinda place. Thank god he doesn't have any actual teeth yet, because this hurts bad enough. I think the girls each bit me once or twice before they got the message that Mama don't play that. Let's hope Owen is as bright as his sisters.
So basically the little guy is a happy, healthy, adorable Mama's boy. Who needs to let us sleep!
Posted by me at September 27, 2008 10:48 AM