{6 months} 8.17.2012

Little Colls,

You brighten your daddy’s and my world more and more every day. You really are the absolute best thing in our lives and we are so thankful that God chose us to be your parents. It’s hard to believe it has been SIX months since you entered this world, you haven’t stopped smiling since. I say a prayer of thanks every day as you are such a content, happy little babe. Your smiles and giggles bring tremendous joy to our hearts. Thank you for being YOU and thank you for making this whole transition into the world of parenthood go so smoothly for us. We love you to the MOON and back.

You continue to grow, thrive, explore and change every day. We went for your 6 month check up this morning and you definitely crawled all around the table…even if it is a low crawl/army crawl/scoot you are MOVING for sure. Most of the time you move backwards, but not today little boog! If I ever take the time to figure out how to put videos on here…I have TWO full minutes recorded of your VERY slow first crawl. You love to laugh out loud, and talk constantly although no definite “first words” yet. Your hands are in your mouth practically all the time…teeth will be soon. You still LOVE your thumb, it soothes you best. You sleep on your tummy all the time and most of the time with your little hiney high in the air, melts my heart. You had your first cold this past week on our family vacation to Beaufort…but it didn’t seem to bother you too much…just lots of bulb syringe time, which you do NOT like. We just switched you to size TWO diapers last week and 6 month footed jammies. You can still wear a lot of 3 month clothes, but are mostly in 3-6/6 month outfits and dresses. *In your 6 month pictures you are still rocking your 3 month pink onesie…so maybe by 7 month photos we will use your new one!* We installed your bumper jumper last night and you LOVED it…that and the exercauser keep you entertained for a while. You are definitely sitting up and have been for a couple of weeks now…slowly getting steadier by the day. You have now eaten oatmeal, bananas, and sweet potatoes. We started sweet potatoes for the first time the night your turned 6 months and you really LOVE them, a carb lover like your mama:-) We are going to introduce some peas, apples, and green beans over the next week. Your hair is lightening up a bit to a light brown; it was much darker when you were a newborn. And (!!!) your bald spot on the back of your head is finally starting to grow in, yay!!! You are our little petite peanut and we love you so very much.

6 months:

Weight: 14.5 (13%)

Height: 25 (12%)

Bottles/nursing: four times a day

Food: cereal, bananas, sweet potatoes: three meals a day

Bedtime: between 8 and 8:30, depending on how well you napped that day. You still nap very well for me, but at day care you cat nap a bunch and haven’t quite figured out how to sleep for a while thru all the noise. You start stirring around 6 or 6:30 in the mornings, but you just talk to yourself for about five minutes and then go back to sleep; during the week we wake you up at 7 to nurse before we leave for work. *I am now pump free and just nurse you twice a day ,then you get two bottles during the day of formula.* On the weekends/ vacation you will sleep until 8 or 8:30. You still are an amazing sleeper!

Nicknames: little C, Colls, Collins Bollins, boot (your granddaddy)

Loves: anything in your mouth, exercauser, jumper, food!, tummy time play.

Six month photo session. These are getting harder and harder to accomplish as you don't like to sit still for long and it is almost impossible for me to get you to smile by myself while holding a big huge camera. We will have to make sure daddy is around for your 7 month shoot!

What, mom? I really just want to suck my thumb...