Here Come the Cummings: Happy 6 Months Cooper!

Today is Cooper's half birthday! 6 months old...can you believe it??

6 months is the most scrumptious age ever! I am in love with this age and I just want to freeze time right now and enjoy every second of it. It's no secret that Cooper was a difficult newborn, and I was a first time mom that had no idea what I was doing. Those first 2 months were rough and I wanted to pull my hair out! But now...Oh.My.Goodness, he is the sweetest baby. Yes, I'm biased and not all the nursery workers would say that (he can get cranky when he's tired), but I think he is my smiley little angel baby (that I call him often).

We went to the Doctor today for his 6 months check up. He now weighs 17 pounds (42nd percentile), 26 inches long (35th percentile) and his head is 43.8 cm (52nd percentile). He jumped from the 27th percentile in weight to the 42nd percentile in 2 months. You can tell he is definitely getting chunkier. I look back at pictures when he was 1 and 2 months old and forgot how skinny he was! This mama just did not have enough milk for him. He also got his 6 month shots today. He handled it like a champ, only cried for less than 10 seconds and then stopped after I picked him up. Sweet Mama's boy. Then he even smiled at the nurse that gave him the shots!

look at those feet!

Taking his pictures by myself is not easy. He is so squirmy, even the nurse mentioned that at the Doctor's. He would not sit still and wanted to look at everything around him...as you will see in some of the pictures I got :)

Here is what is going with my boy at 6 months:

Sleeping: The month started out rough as he was waking up consistently every night anywhere from 3-5am. He did this for about 3 weeks straight. Sometimes I would have to feed him and sometimes I would have to rock him. It threw me off because he does not have to be rocked when he goes down for naps or at bedtime, I can put him in his crib awake and he will just go to sleep. But if he woke up in the middle of the night, he would NOT go back to sleep unless I would rock him to sleep. He would scream and cry when I would put him back down awake. But thankfully, that has also been much better of the past 2 weeks or so and he is back to sleeping through the entire night. He even slept a record of 12 hours straight the other night. Usually it's about 11 hours. He goes to bed around 8-8:30pm and then wakes up anywhere between 7:30-8:30am. But of course there are days he goes to bed later for different reasons. I'm definitely not a bedtime nazi...yet.

Not a good idea to put the bear next to him anymore while trying to take his pictures...this is what happens

Napping: He still takes 3 naps a day which has been working well for us since he goes to bed a little later sometimes. His nap times are usually 10am, 2pm, and a short nap around 5:30 or 6pm. I'm thinking this might be the month he drops his 3rd nap so I will probably need to put him to bed earlier. He is a great napper and his first 2 naps are usually 1.5 to 2 hours long. If we are out and about in the morning and his first nap is super short, he will usually take a 3 hour nap in the afternoon.

"I just want to look around the room, Mama"

Eating: His eating hasn't changed much in the past month. He has about 6-8 oz 5 times a day. I try not to feed him in the middle of the night if he wakes up and that has been working well. I also started him on some solids this month. He's had rice cereal (thought it was just okay), carrots (he loved), green beans (ewww, wouldn't eat that), squash (not too great), and peas (ewww again). I'm going to start some fruits this week and I'm sure he will love that. It was really cute to watch him eat carrots and he was loving it!

well, hello there...

Milestones/Working on: There didn't seem to be any major changes this past month. We are working on him sitting up on his own. He can do it for a few seconds but then falls over or wants to just get on his tummy. The kid loves to be on his tummy, it's crazy. He still rolls over from his back to his tummy all the time. Sometimes I think he will crawl before he sits up. He loves playing with toys and he concentrates so hard on everything. I started taking him to the childcare at the gym which has worked out great. I was nervous about it at first since I've only taken him to the church nursery but the ladies there love him and he is perfect every time.