On Friday, Brenden turns 6 months old! Happy half year, Bubs! Here’s some new info on the little guy:

1. Once we leveled out the mattress and “set him free” so to speak (no more swaddling or “nest”), Brenden figured out he could scoot and roll and have fun in the bed. I’ve started trying to take pictures of the weird positions he sleeps in.

2. He also came up with the fun game of “throw the pacifiers out of the crib”. We now have at least two to three in there to combat the game.

3. He is now seriously teething. I still can’t find any little teeth buds, but he’s got lots of the symptoms – flushed cheeks, drool, chewing on everything, doesn’t like solids, crankyness, etc.

4. Due to the teething, he’s become very difficult to feed. I actually took him to the doctor last week thinking he was sick because he freaked out every time we tried to feed him solids. We finally figured out it was teething and found the formula: oragel+no cereal+cold food+a little yogurt = happier eater

5. Feeding him solids has become the new thing this month. So far, he’s tried: avocado, sweet potato, bananas, pears (thanks Great GrandButlers!), apple juice, oatmeal and rice cereal, and yogurt. Favorite so far – yogurt (whole milk organic active cultures yogurt). Least fav – bananas. Avocados are a close second fav.

6. Most people who know me know that I am not “granola” in any way, but having a baby has made me much more interested in what I put in both me and him. I’m making my own baby food and buying organic veggies. Since he likes yogurt so much, I’m even going to try to make my own!

7. He’s getting closer to crawling, but not quite there yet. However, if you put him on the floor and lay down a little bit away from him, he figured out how to squirm his way over to you and he’s very proud of himself when he does.

8. I just downloaded a bunch of pictures off our old camera – normally Andy uses the good one and I walk around with the older one since I usually forget to take pictures of anything. I just found pics all the way back to our Disney trip. I’ll try to put some of the good ones on Facebook and let Andy pretty up the other ones for here.

9. B is starting to get hair. Actually, he’s had some hair, but now he actually has hair you can see. It’s oddly blond. I don’t know where he got that.

10. Now that we’ve started solids, he’s going to bed earlier and sleeping later. I think it’s the combo of heavier food and all the activity during the day – he doesn’t stay still. Ever. Unless you put him in a bath. That seems to be a serious activity that requires concentration.

11. I’ve started giving him baths at night before bed – you can pretty much count on him starting to get cranky and sleepy by the time bath is over and pj’s are on. He falls asleep within 5 minutes after that. It’s really nice. Hopefully he’ll continue to be a good sleeper for a while!

12. The bigger he gets, the more I want to throw furniture out the window so we have floor space. Who needs seating? Isn’t that what the floor is for?

13. We went to the store yesterday and bought every kind of fruit/veggie that counts as “first foods” for a baby. Including prunes. Lord, help us all. yuck. So far today I’ve made six ice cube trays worth of food, with probably enough stuff for six more at least. He’s set for a few months – then there’s a whole new list of foods he can eat!

14. I’m starting to look into different web-based services to make a scrapbook of B’s first year. So far I’ve looked at www.cropmom.com and www.shutterfly.com. Anybody have any other recommendations? I have a few beautiful handmade scrapbooks that I just need to print out the pics for as well – he’s going to be one well documented kiddo.

Hope you are all doing well! Come by and see us sometime – B loves visitors!

Happy six months!