6 MONTHS!!

Happy "6" Months!! Mom, I'm getting too fast for you...better hurry and get that new camera!!
I get to start using my very own cup??!!! But can I still have my bottle too...please!!


I'm still a strawberry blondie!!

Look Grammy....I finally got some shades like yours!!!

Mom...these are AWESOME!!! No more squinting so I don't have to do Botox when I grow-up!



Go Rockets!! The way I'm growing Dad says I can probably play for them!

Look at my LONG eyelashes...do you think I can get a girlfriend with them??

I can rock myself now...Na...just kidding!!!

My poor Mom always closes her eyes!! Out to dinner for my Sis's B-Day!!

Grown-up Night out!!

I so sleepy!!! I had a hard day trying to take my naps in my crib now!!!

Not much longer until I won't need this Bumbo thing!!

Butternut Squash this week...I think this is really my Favorite now!! Yum Yum!!

Do I look like Urban Cowboy!! YeeHaw!!! Mom...you should have bought me a bigger hat!!

I love my FEETS!!!!

And my hands!!!

And to just SMILE !!!!

For those of you that have never blogged...it does take time to sit down and write and I just finished Jaxton's up-date for his 6 months and some how IT GOT ERASED...Whahhhh!! So here it goes again!!!

Can you believe it has been 6 months since our little man has entered this world??? Time sure has flown by!! I have to make two comments from my last blog. First, I don' t think I explained the tee tee story enough for you to laugh and not gag!! Ross and I would not flush the toilet sometimes until Jaxton found sound asleep because he has deer ears like his mama BUT we have overcome than phenomenon and are now back to flushing the toilets!! I know...we were being extreme!! Second, we will NEVER leave our premises even if we can see and hear Jaxton on the monitor because my MOM made the suggestion just WHAT IF something else happened in another room and we couldn't get to Jaxton....BOY why didn't I think if that!!! MAJOR BRAIN FART!!! Thanks Mom for being my Mom!

Okay...on to our crazy week of him turning 6 months!!! He accomplished so many things this week it was truly unreal so here is the low down:

1. I have another confession to make...I have let Jaxton take many naps during the day in his swing listening to his Mozart...well the little guy loved it and would sleep for 2 hours sometimes BUT I know that he NEEDS to be in his crib even for nap time when we are home so I had to break the habit this week. We stayed home ALOT so I could put him down in his crib for his naps and break this habit and it was hard for the first two days and now he pretty much goes right down...thank goodness he gave in!!!

2. Jaxton was told by his Dr. at his 4 month check-up that he would be given NO formula during the night at 6 MONTHS and what would you know...a week before he turned 6 months he quit waking up wanting to eat...I think it has a lot to do with him eating solids during the day now because he would suck that bottle down during the night...SO WHAT DOES THIS FINALLY MEAN....a full night sleep for Mommy now!! WOW...6 months later!!!! So he goes to bed at 7 pm and doesn't get up until 6:15 to 7:15!!! Yea!!!

3. He finally found his feet and is GRABBING them and SUCKING on them....Ewww!

4. He started to snort and cough for new noises BUT now is making funny nosies with his lips and tongue ( kinda like raspberries ) and then he is even almost saying BaBa..he is trying really hard...I swear he will be saying something like that in no time!!

5. Even though he found his hands a long time ago...he has been looking at them in the air alot this week

6. He is still rolling over from back to tummy alot when on his play blanket and is now grasping for toys within reach and when he can't reach them he pushes that little bottom up in the air and scoots to try to get what he wants...he makes progress but not a whole lot!!
7. When he gets really excited he hits his fists against his belly...I guess he is trying to imitate a monkey since he likes them so much!!

8. FINALLY he has found out that he has to open his mouth WIDE to get that good homemade baby food....no more having to sing and make noises his whole meal time!!

9. Oh....the clogged tear duct that he has had since birth has FINALLY cleared up....either he has just out grown it or it is the carrots he ate last week....( My Chinese neighbor told me to boil carrots in water and then give him the water in a bottle and it would cure it...but I never did because I didn't want to give him water when he was so young BUT MAYBE SHE WAS RIGHT!!)

10. Jaxton can now sit unassisted for about 15 seconds or so then needs our help so he doesn't do a total faceplant!! Pretty soon he will be doing it all by himself!!

11. Lastly....Jaxton gave me a very very special moment this week....I was rocking him in the rocker and he was laying in my arms as I was singing him many new lullabyes and he just laid there looking at my eyes and mouth and listening to me sing for over 20 minutes then he went sound asleep!!! Awww!! He doesn't usually EVER sit still for that long!!

Since we were at home mostly this week we didn't do too much shopping around BUT on Saturday night Ross and I had a grown-up night and went out with my sister for her B-day...it was very nice to have a couple of hours as adults!! Ross's parents came over to babysit Jaxton for the first time and poor little guy was so upset that we left he wouldn't even take his bottle to go to bed ( poor Grandparents too!! ) But when I got home he woke up and smiled SO BIG and ate his bottle and went to sleep for the rest of the night... I guess sending him away to camp when he gets older might be out of the question...HAHA!!

AND FOR THE FINALE....he had his 6 Month check-up and came in at:

18 POUNDS ( 75th Percentile )

27 1/2 inches long ( 90th Percentile )

47.9 cm in head circumference ( OFF THE CHARTS - Einstein Percentile )!!!