Well, here we are already at the six-month point! In some ways it seems to have flown by, but in others I kind of feel like he should be older by now. :) I just love this little muffin so much, though. It is hard to find snuggle time right now with how busy the other boys are (and how active D is getting!), but every chance I get I am snuggling up to him and loving on him and breathing in that sweet baby goodness. But I do have to admit that I am a little excited about only having six more months until my body is completely mine again forever! Lol. I hope I don't look back on these first few months of Davis's life and wish I would have cherished the baby time more... but after almost 7 years straight of either being pregnant or breastfeeding you can probably understand why I am a little excited to be done. And I do feel like I've actually "spoiled" him a little more than any of his brothers. I feel like I definitely feed him more on-demand than I ever did before... and he looks it! haha!
He was sitting on my lap with a short romper on at church this past Sunday and a lady walked over to me and said, "I just have to touch those thighs... I can't help it!" And she walked over and squeezed his legs and he laughed and laughed! He's very ticklish on his thighs. She said to him, "How do you even close your legs??" haha!
He is sitting up completely on his own now, and LOVES to watch his brothers play. He is almost fully crawling... He will get up on all fours and kind of leap-frog his knees up to move forward and get a toy that he wants. And he is getting very grabby and super observant. I have to nurse in the back bedroom alone (or try to be alone at least... haha) so that he will take in a good feeding. Otherwise he stops every three seconds and rolls over backwards to see what everyone else is doing. And as soon as we are done feeding I hold him and try to snuggle and give kisses but he is either turning around to see what else is going on or bending over to try to grab something. SO busy! :)
Okay... I know these two pics are almost exactly the same, but do you see how he's lifting his foot off the couch in this one? I thought it was cute so I had to post it, too! Lol.
For the past two nights I have not fed him from 10:30 P.M. until about 7:00 A.M. It's been a bit of tough love, because he does wake up and fuss a little, but he hasn't been crying for a long time or anything. He just fusses for a few minutes and then goes back to sleep. I'm hoping in the next night or two he won't wake up at all! I had to do this tough love during the night because he was waking up in the morning and not eating at all (because he had eaten during the night) and it was completely messing up his "schedule" during the day and messing up my milk production. Now he is hungry at 7:00 A.M. and it makes everything much easier. And seriously, does this chunk really need to still be eating during the night?!?
Oooh, I love him. He is such a sweet, easy-going, happy boy. And I will say again that he sure loves his brothers. He is all smiles and giggles with them. And J and R love to love on him, too. E will talk to him when I ask him to, but kind of keeps his distance overall. The other night D was sitting on the floor watching J and E push a toy car back and forth across the floor to each other. Every time it would zoom past D he would jump and let out this funny yell. It was hysterical. I wish I had gotten it on video, but I didn't... so I wanted to jot it down here so we would remember it later.
We love that he has Emmett's ears, and he has the longest toes ever! I love turning around in the car and looking at them when he's in the car seat (when Phil is driving, of course). I have a great view of D's feet from the passenger seat. :)
He had a cold a few weeks ago (all four boys shared double ear infections from the older boys' preschool summer program... ugh!) and was very stuffy, hence the drooling and mouth breathing.
He still will not eat or drink anything other than mommy's milk. I tried solids a few weeks ago and for one day he ate pretty well and I thought, "HOORAY!" and then from the next day on it has been clamped mouth like this pic I put on instagram...
So I gave up for a few weeks (plus Phil has been out of town during the week for a month and I have had a hard time fitting in a time to try solid food with D) and we will try again soon. We love you, big D!! 19lbs, 10 oz; 26.5 inches long
