6 Month Check-up

Kyle had his 6 month check-up today and he checked out great! He's up to 19 lbs 11 oz and 27.5". All 3 of his percentiles (weight, length and head circumference) were within 1% of each other, around 78th%. So he is very proportionate! He had another round of shots and handled them well...I was doing "car wash" (hanging my hair over his face) and he was smiling/laughing until the needles went in, and then his little lower lip went out and he made the most devastated-sounding cry. But he only cried for about 5 seconds and then resumed his amusement with car wash.

As you can see from the above photo, Kyle loves eating "solids"...the messier the better! We have figured out how to keep things tidier since this photo was taken though. When we first started, he'd whine/fuss a little bit in between bites, like he thought we were taking it away. But he now seems to understand that, unlike Mommy or a bottle, the spoon isn't bottomless and it needs to come out of his mouth frequently to "fill up". It's cute though, instead of fussing, he now anxiously kicks his little feet around when he's waiting for his next bite :) So after a week of enjoying rice "mush", we started him on oatmeal mush yesterday (and the quiet old lady who was whispering hush). He seems to like it just as well. And the pediatrician said we can start the Stage 1 fruits and veggies after a couple days of oatmeal. Since Kyle loves this "wallpaper paste", I bet he's REALLY going to love fruits and veggies, since they'll actually have a taste to them!

And much to my disappointment, the solids haven't helped his sleep at night. He's still waking about every 3 hrs to eat :( The pediatrician asked about his sleep and his response was "well, you could let him cry for a minute or two and see if he'll fall back asleep"...a minute or two?? I let him cry for 5-10 minutes without thinking twice about it! Needless to say, I didn't tell him that we're considering trying one of those "cry it out" methods.