Six Months

Well, I’m a little late updating on Lee’s sixth month, but at least I’m getting this all down before he turns seven months this week!  As I’m sure I will say over and over, TIME FLIES!  I can’t believe half a year has already passed us by in the blink of an eye.  Lee turned 6 months old on Christmas day.  It was such a special time of year, celebrating Christ’s birth with our sweet boy and our families.  I love this six month pic of Lee – he really is our happy boy!

Weight:  We went to the doctor for Lee’s six month appointment and got his official stats.  He weighed 18 lbs. 11 oz. (75%). 

Length:  Lee was 27 3/4 in. (97%).  We could definitely tell he had a growth spurt in length because his pants were all getting too short. 

Head Circumference:  Still in the 10th percentile!

Clothing: Lee is wearing mostly9 month clothing.   He is still wearing a size 3 diaper.

Feeding: Lee is still breastfeeding – about four times a day.  During this month, we started trying rice cereal/oatmeal and slowly started adding a few other baby foods.  He seems to like oatmeal better than rice cereal.  We just gave him carrots and sweet potatoes this month.  He likes the carrots the best – just like daddy!   

Sleep: Lee is sleeping great  - still 11-12 hours a night.  He is still taking 3 naps a day for the most part (sometimes 2).  Lee got another cold this month but luckily this cold didn’t interfere with his sleeping.  Of course I freaked out about his cold because I saw him grabbing at his ears a couple of times so I just knew he had an ear infection even though the nurse on the phone told me it didn’t sound like he did.  I took him to the doctor anyways since it was a couple days before Christmas – I was worried he would be sick and we wouldn’t be able to take him to his doctor over the holidays.  Luckily, he was fine and luckily the doctor didn’t make me feel like a crazy paranoid mom! 

Activities: Lee started sitting up so much better about a week before Christmas.  He is stable enough now where he can hold onto his toys while he is sitting.  Lee is so happy and just our laid back, carefree baby boy.  He gives us the biggest smiles and laughs.  This is such a fun stage to see his little personality start coming out!

Holidays in Review

Well since I have failed to write anything about some of Lee’s first holiday experiences, I’m going to do a quick recap starting all the way back with Halloween. 

For Halloween this year, Lee was a little monkey.  We thought this was appropriate since all of Cole’s guy friends refer to themselves as the monkeys.  Whenever they are around each other, although they are all over 30, they tend to act like a bunch of monkeys.

We had fun taking Lee to a few of the neighbor’s houses to “trick or treat”.  Lee did fall asleep in Cole’s arms while visiting with some of the neighbors.  I guess he was just cozy in his monkey suit and could only take so much Halloween fun.  We also went over to Rance and Kayla’s house and then down to Chris and Kimi’s house.  Lee slept through most of that too!

For Thanksgiving, our plans got changed up a little bit from past years because Duke had to have surgery unexpectedly the week of Thanksgiving.  We were thankful that he was ok and got to go home without having to spend Thanksgiving in the hospital.  So, on Wednesday, we went to Baytown and spent Wednesday and Thursday night there.  We had Thanksgiving lunch on Thursday and then Cole, Cody, Casey and I went to the A&M vs. tu game on Thursday night.  Since it was the last one ever, it was really exciting to be there.  G-Mom and Duke graciously watched Lee so that we could go to the game.  I think we all had a great time despite an Aggie loss!  On Friday, we drove to Arlington and spent Friday and Saturday night with my family.  We had a great time just hanging out and on Saturday we went to the Gaylord Texan to look at all the Christmas decorations. 

Now onto Christmas…we started off on Christmas Eve Eve going to my Aunt Susan and Uncle Larry’s house in Denton.  We spent the night there and celebrated Christmas Eve at their house.  There were about 35-40 people there for Christmas Eve dinner.  My dad and Aunt Susan did most of the cooking for the big dinner.  It was delicious as always!  Since the celebration was going way past Lee’s bedtime, we left early and headed back to Arlington.  We did Christmas morning at my parent's house and it was so much fun this year watching Lee with his presents.  He got lots of new toys to play with.  It was great timing for some new toys because he is sitting up now and really grabbing for toys. 

On Christmas day, we packed up and went to Fort Worth to Cole’s PawPaw’s house.  We had a great time celebrating with G-Mom, Duke, Casey, Cody, Polly, Sam, Samuel and PawPaw.  We missed getting to be with Chris and Kimi though!  On Christmas night, Mary Kay, Barry, Corky, Jan and Adam came over to meet Lee since we didn’t get to see them Christmas Eve night.  We stayed in Fort Worth until Tuesday and had fun just hanging out and playing with Lee.  We had a great first Christmas with Lee!  This Christmas was so much fun and I know that it will get even more fun in the years to come when Lee really knows more about what is going on.  Also, along with celebrating Christ’s birth, we got to celebrate Lee turning 6 months on Christmas day!  What a big boy!