Isaiah is 6 Months Old

9 days late... oops.

-Isaiah is about 18.5 lbs.

-He is 28 inches.

-His head circumference is about __ inches (it was 17 inches at 5 months)

-Same as last month, he is on the medium rise setting on his diapers. We exclusively use Flip covers with various inserts (stay dry, organic cotton, Thirsties inserts, flats, or prefolds) during the day, with a few bumGenius Freetimes thrown in, mostly for Daddy. At night he wears an sbish snapless fitted (with both doublers) with a Blueberry one size cover with aplix. The rise on the cover is completely unsnapped to fit over the fitted.

-He still has those two bottom teeth playing peekaboo (since he was 4 weeks old), and his bottom gums are swelling out in other areas, so I think some of his other teeth are moving around. I cannot believe those teeth haven't come through!

-He has no bottles ever, nor will he ever.

-He has had no solids, and we don't plan to introduce them anytime soon.

-We cosleep, and I can't imagine how much life would suck if we didn't.  He sleeps like an infant is supposed to - getting up to nurse anywhere from 1 to 3 times in the night.  1 time a night has been rare this past month, it's usually twice.  But almost every night this past month he has had a long awake period in the middle of the night, ranging anywhere from half an hour to an hour and a half (this is why life would suck if we didn't cosleep).

-He goes to bed between 7 and 8, depending on when he woke up from his final nap, and wakes up between 6:30 and 7:30 (we are very very lucky if he sleeps all the way until 7:30, though).

-Isaiah isn't sleeping very well on me anymore, so most of his naps are in bed.  Like last month, most of his naps are 30-45 minutes long, but a few times a week we get one that ranges from an hour to an hour and 45 minutes long.  I big-puffy-heart LOVE those ones.

-We're in that awkward place between 2 and 3 naps.  He needs 3 but we can only fit in 2 most days.

-He still sleeps on his tummy, but this month he started flipping to his back on his own while he's in bed (he has been rolling over for a long time, obviously, but just never did it in bed until recently) and so occasionally he sleeps on his back.  He's finally at the point where I can lay him down on his back and his windmilling arms wouldn't wake him up immediately.  I don't usually do this, though, because he sleeps shorter periods when he's on his back.

-In the past I have said that Isaiah is the happiest baby I have ever met... Well, the past 2 or 3 weeks he's been kind of miserable.  He still has big smiles and giggles, but he's a lot fussier again this month.  It's been reminding me of when he was a newborn and things sucked.  Obviously it's not THAT bad, but we have seen far far better days.

-He started pushing himself up on his hands and knees and rocking right when he turned 5 months old.  Still not cross-crawling, though.

-He scoots himself all over the house, but hasn't perfected the army crawl like Noah had at this age.

-He is a really good sitter.  His back is straight, he doesn't need to be propped up by anything, and he can stay like that for a good 10 minutes.  Right when I started thinking he might not be sitting "properly" by the time he turned 6 months, he started sitting really well!  Just a few days before he turned 6 months old.

-He is friendly to people and smiles at them when they talk to and smile at him.

-He loves Noah!

-He is getting better in the car.  He won't nap in there (booo!  My sympathies to those of you whose children don't nap in the car!  I never understood how this was possible before), but at least he doesn't scream the entire time we're in there.  If I provide him with a steady rotation of toys he can make it through a 20 minute car ride with no issues... once a day, anyway.  The car ride back home usually involves screaming.

-He still has all his baths in the kitchen sink because it's easier for me.  I have no idea when I'm going to switch this to the bath tub.  Now that he sits up straight he is fitting really well in the sink and I have even less motivation to change the location.  Oh well!

-While last month I had 25 baby carriers, now I have 35 (even though I continue to sell them off).  Hello, my name is Lauren, and I am a babywearing addict.

This was a very cranky day... and he has since decided he doesn't like the soother (which I didn't even give to him until he turned 5 months old... I was shocked he took it in the first place!):

Happy baby! 

I forgot to mention... instead of reclining in the bouncy chair, he now insists on sitting straight up.  He can even do a sit up to get in this position if I lay him in the chair.

Things Noah Says

These quote are from when Noah was about 2 years and 8 months until 3 years old.  Most of them are from earlier in that time period.


While eating dinner, with a sly smile: "Mommy and Daddy, there's a crab coming up the stairs!  It's gonna eat us for dinner!  With a fork and knife!  It's gonna cut us!"


Noah, enthusiastically: "Just some cheese, please, I'd like some cheese!"
Me: "You want some cheese?  How many pieces?"
Noah: "Like one two three four five, six seven eight nine ten!"


For awhile, every time he walked into the room after Isaiah woke up from a nap (on the rare occasions he doesn't nap while I'm wearing him), he would say in a high voice: "Hi Isaiah!  It's your Noah!!"


"Mommy, I want to talk to you!  I want you to look at me!" I look at him, and he gets all shy, "Your milk will make Isaiah get older... right?"


"Let's have crackers with some cheese butter!!" (aka cream cheese... I think I like "cheese butter" better!)


"And when Isaiah is bigger he can play with me!  And then we will have another baby!  That's a good idea, right?!"


On his way to go "help" Daddy clean the litter boxes: "Let's go empty those poopy cat potties!!!!"


"It is apparent that we need to go downstairs and watch Cars."


"Look at Isaiah!  He's so beautiful!"


"Let's go have some porn cops!" (Ummm... that would be Corn Pops).


"I can't watch the not nice Cars...  I can watch the not nice Cars when I'm 50!" (I don't like the Cars 2 movie, for the record, I think it's inappropriate for this age).


Mommy: "Noah, you're almost 3.  3 years ago you were still in my tummy!"
Noah: "Yeah!  Who will be in your tummy next?"


Noah brought Isaiah a toy to play with and told him, "Now don't be drooly!  Drool on the blanket."


These are for my own memories:

Noah used to always use the "f" sound for anything that started with "sw" (fwim instead of swim), "sm" (fonck instead of smock), "sp" (fecial instead of special).  Well, a month before his third birthday he finally stopped doing that and started using the proper sounds!  He is extremely proud of himself.  I will miss those hilarious mispronunciations.

Ever since we had Isaiah, Noah has loved to pretend that each of us are someone else.  It goes something like this: "I'm Daddy, and you're Isaiah, and Daddy is Mommy, and Isaiah is Noah!!"

He constantly says "Aww, I love you Mommy.  You're a cutie-girl.  And I'm a cutie-boy, and Isaiah's a cutie-boy, and Daddy is a cutie-boy, and you're a cutie-girl!"

And because it just makes me laugh...

(I did not tell Noah to go beside his brother.  He insisted in being in the pictures and kept making ridiculous faces.  This child cracks me up.)

That's my boy.  Actually, those are my boys.  Isaiah's faces are pretty funny, too.

Happy Birthday Noah!

Happy 3rd Birthday to the sweetest little boy I have ever known. 

3 years ago you made me a mother...

And being your mother has been the most incredible experience of my life.

Words can’t express how thankful we are that you are our son, and how blessed we are to have you in our lives. We love you, Noah!

Sick Again!

Last Thursday I wrote about a really crappy night of sleep courtesy of dear Isaiah.  I said I wasn't worried about it because (and I quote) "this likely won't be repeated tonight."

Well, turns out it was repeated the next 4 or 5 nights!  Haha.  No seriously. The next night at Isaiah's first wake up I heard how congested he was, and he continued to wake up about every 2 hours all night, with some long awake periods.  He's been sick for the past week.  Poor little guy.  He's still really congested.  I have to use a saline spray and the Nosefrida on him before almost every time we nurse because he can't get any air through his nostrils.

I have no idea where this virus came from, because none of the rest of us are sick and we didn't spend any time around anyone who was sick.  It's a mystery.  I also have no idea how I got through Noah being sick so often when he was 0-18 months old without a Nosefrida.  Seriously, NO IDEA.  That thing is amazing.

Isaiah has been pretty cranky for the past week.  Between teething and his cold (and sometimes being hungry because he's too congested to be able to nurse), he's been a big ball of crank.  Thankfully it is March Break, so Justin has been home for some moral support.

Back to the sleep thing though... The past few nights have been better because Isaiah has gotten used to being congested and has stopped protesting having to breathe through his mouth.  Last night he slept 7:45 to 5:15am, then after about half an hour of being awake he went back to sleep until 8:30am.  I went to sleep around 10pm and then stayed in bed until 8am (Justin was up with Noah)... it was amazing!

Picture time!

As Isaiah gets older he gets blonder:

He's got the hands and knees thing down... and he can end up halfway across the room independently, but he just can't seem to get the cross crawling thing down ;)

I did not tell Noah to get in the picture... he just kept going next to Isaiah and making ridiculous faces.  This picture cracked me up:

Mini-Babywearer

I just found this picture from back in December...

And then I died from the cuteness.

Apparently I Don't Blog, But My Kid is Moving

Apparently I don't blog anymore.  I don't really know what's going on except that I just don't have time to sit down and write actual posts.  My kids won't tolerate it.  The only reason I'm writing this one is because Isaiah is sleeping in (more on that in a minute) and Noah is playing on my iPod.  Although as soon as I started typing this Noah asked "Can I go get Isaiah?  Is he awake?"  No, no you may not.

So, it's 8:30 and Isaiah is sleeping in, and here's why.  This is what his night looked like last night:

7:25 - 10:30 - sleep (3 hours 5 minutes)
10:30-10:40 - nurse
10:40 - 1:15 - sleep (2 hours 35 minutes)
1:15 - 1:25 - nurse
1:25 - 3:45 - sleep (2 hours 20 minutes)
3:45 - 3:55 - nurse
3:55 - 5:20 - AWAKE... for 1 hour and 25 minutes
5:20 - 6:50 - sleep (1 hour 30 minutes)
7:00 - 7:10 - nurse
7:10 - 8:35 and counting - sleep

What the heck.  Obviously I could do without the getting up every 1-3 hours, but that hour and a half long party in the wee hours of the morning was definitely the kicker.  I mean, I still have to get up at 6:45 regardless of whether Isaiah decides sleeping is for the birds.

Thankfully I've been a mom for long enough to know that a) this is completely normal and to be expected, and therefore not the end of the world, and b) this likely won't be repeated tonight.  And since we cosleep I also didn't have to walk around the house or rock in a rocking chair while he was awake.  I just lied beside him and pretended to be asleep while he laid his head on my arms and sides and back (depending on what position I was in.  Then finally I laid on my stomach next to him with my left arm draped over him body, and he drifted off.

This leads me to another point... this kid is getting mobile.  He isn't army crawling forward, but he's going backward.  He is spinning in circles and can end up feet awake from where he's placed on the floor.  And finally... he's pushing himself up on his hands and knees.  Like, fully pushing himself up.  As in, 3 inches of daylight between his belly and the floor.  Since he turned 5 months old.

What??

I was hoping since we cosleep that he'd take longer than Noah to become mobile (Noah was a very early mover and crawler).  Apparently not.

TGIF!

WAHOO, it's Friday!!!!