It's been awhile since I last updated this, but I've been too busy just enjoying your sweetness. Here you are at four, five and six months!
I don't know where to even start... you're getting to be so grown up! It sure is bittersweet. This morning I was out by myself and I saw another woman holding a sweet little boy about your age. He had fallen asleep on her shoulder and for a moment I started to tear up... all I could think about was how in just a few short months you will be considered a toddler and not a baby anymore... and oh how I will miss all of your sweet babyness! There is something so different about knowing you are our grand finale. Every time you reach a milestone and even just in the everyday I am struck by a moment of "this is my last baby"and it makes me a little bit sad. I am slowly mourning the end of the baby phase. And you are my baby in every way. For some reason I just can't seem to let you cry as long as I did your brothers. I don't mind you coming into bed to sleep in the middle of the night and I don't mind carrying you around a good part of the day either. You are such a little doll baby that I can't resist wanting to snuggle you all the time.
You have the cutest little dimple on your right cheek. You seem smaller to me than James and Ethan were at your age... though you weighed the same amount as Ethan did at 6 months old. Your head is smaller and I'm not sure if that is what makes you seem more petite:) You are extremely busy! You started to army crawl a few weeks ago and now you can get into things in the blink of an eye. I turn my back for a moment and you're across the room. You prefer to play with your brothers toys and love to watch everything they do. They are great entertainment for you! When I put you in the walker you take off like you have found a freedom not know before.
You are really very quiet, but you let us know loud and clear when you need something. I am continually amazed by how patient you are as you frequently have to wait while I do things for others. You've started chatting with us and like to say "babababa" and you especially like to say "mmm" while you eat. It's quite endearing.
You are not the world's best sleeper and I think we are going to have to do a little baby boot camp soon, but it's so hard for me to let you cry! You are still not consistently sleeping though the night and this mama needs her beauty rest, so it's time to break some of our bad habits. You are napping well in the morning for the most part and taking another nap in the afternoon. For a while you seemed to be a pretty fitful sleeper and you do quite a bit of rolling all over your crib. However, you mostly seem to settle on your tummy with your hands tucked underneath you. You're wearing 6-12 month clothes and size 3 diapers and eating three meals a day. You love all fruits and most of the veggies I give you and just like your brothers... you LOVE apples and chicken. We've tried yogurt, which you loved. You also enjoy puffs, mum mum, teething biscuits and yogurt melts, but you have not warmed up to any chunky foods. No teeth yet and they don't appear to be coming anytime soon. That okay though... we adore your gummy smile!
I just brought down some Valentine decorations from the attic and one of them was a picture frame with your sonogram photo from last year. It's hard to believe we had no idea what you were going to look like or be like or even what you would be named, and now here you are as though you have been here forever. You complete our family in a way I'm not sure we even knew we needed. But God did. And he brought us the most wonderful gift in you. Everything about you from your sweet fuzzy duck hair to your ticklish little tummy to your chubby little toes is absolutely perfect. We wouldn't change a thing. You are so loved.
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