Surviving Parenthood One Sleepless Night at a Time: My Tiny Baby is Half a Year Old!

This was on a day when he was really fussy and nothing I did would make him stop...until I put him in his floor and let him tear up his toys. He loved it!

He weighs 17 pounds 13 oz. He is 27in. long so he's still tall for his age.

Caleb just turned 6 months old. Where has the time gone??? He had his check up last week. I had to take Ethan with me. I thought it would be a complete disaster but Ethan is quickly showing me that he can be grown up and listen when he wants to. He was a little upset that he wasn't the one getting the exam. He was laying on the table waiting for her to come in. She said that Caleb looked great. He showed off for her. He was laughing, sitting up, and ripping up the paper on the exam table. He tried to take everything she was using to examine him. I told her he keeps me busy! He's still waking up at night once or twice. She said he can train himself to wake for feedings so to feed him less each time or start giving him water for night feedings so maybe he won't be interested. The problem is that once he is awake he doesn't want to go back to sleep! I'm usually up for an hour or two trying to get him to sleep. And yes, I do leave him in his bed awake so he can put himself to sleep. Sometimes it works, sometimes he cries after a while and I have to go get him so he doesn't wake up Ethan. Anyway, he got 1 oral med and 5 shots!!! I warned Ethan that he would cry a lot and told him to help me comfort Caleb. When the nurse was giving him the oral med, I looked over and Ethan had his hands over his ears waiting for him to cry. I told him that he wasn't going to cry yet and he said, "Oh, ok." and put his hands down. Once the nurse got the shots ready, I warned Ethan that Caleb was going to cry so he put his hands over his ears and started singing to himself! So funny. Caleb did great with them. Didn't cry with the first one but did with all the rest. He stopped pretty quick after I picked him up. Then it was off to the lab to get his finger poked. He did good with that too. Only cried at the end of the three tubes of blood that they took.

This is his "I'm about to cry" face. So sad!

So, what is Caleb up to these days? (Besides not sleeping?!) He is wanting to crawl so bad. He can get up on all fours and rock then ends up going backwards and gets so mad. He'll probably have it in the next couple of weeks. He has been eating fruits and veggies for the last 2 months and doing good with that. We'll start him on some meats now. His favorite thing to do is sit on the floor and play with his toys. He still goes in the exersaucer on occasion but it doesn't hold his interest very long. I think he feels too constricted. The Bumbo seat is out now. He can quickly crawl out of it. It was good while it lasted. He loves to play in the water. He splashes in the bathtub so much that I'm just as wet when he gets out. We took him to the pool a few times and he loved it. I think he might have swam by himself if I would've let him go. He's very busy all the time. You'd think he would sleep more! Everything goes in his mouth. If there is a plate in front of me and he's in my lap, his hands are immediately in it. He's my little wild man.