James turns 6 months

Our sweet baby James turned 6 months on the same day Benny turned 6 years old.

And he gained a new skill -- he can sit up! My mother-in-law calls it "getting a nice square bum."

His stats show he is our biggest baby.  At his appointment he was 20 pounds 5 ounces and 28 inches long. That's the 90th and 92nd percentiles.

Here's how the others measured at 6 months:

Max: 19 pounds 1 oz, 28.3 inches
Benny: 19 pounds 2 oz, 30 inches
Andrew: 18 pounds 9 oz, 27.75 inches

And I looked back at four months:

Max 16 lbs 8 oz,  26.9 inches
Benny 17 lbs 3 oz, 27.25 inches
Andrew 16 lbs 12 oz,  26.25 inches
James 17 lbs 15 oz, 26.5 inches

So James has been our roundest, but Benny the tallest as a baby.

Some things he likes to do -- grab anything we are holding, grab our faces and bite our chins, giggle at his brothers, roll to his tummy, roll to his side, chew on his fingers, and more. 

 

He's an ok sleeper at night. If it weren't for a terrible cough and cold he can't shake, I know he'd sleep a lot longer stretches.

 

He has two teeth on the bottom now. Sharp teeth.  He hasn't bitten me while nursing yet but he sure likes to gnaw on and bite anyone's hands. And he doesn't like solid food too much yet. We try him on a spoon or two of rice cereal at dinner time and he's like, "Meh."