ScrumpyDaddy

Posted by Rachel

Zach turned 6 months old on January 1st. I can’t believe it has been 6 months since Zach came into our lives. It feels like our little family is now complete.

Zach has grown so much over the past month both in weight and skills. He is now 20lbs 8 oz. and had to move into 12 month clothes. Carters 12 month clothes start at 20.5 lbs. I can’t believe how fast he is growing. It has to stop soon, right? The only problem with the clothes is the fact that they are a little bit long on him. Hopefully he will start to grow in length instead of girth.

Verbally, Zach is a chatter box. I think he just likes to hear himself make noise. He can make his M sounds and now his B sounds. He loves to go bah, bah, bah. He can also make raspberries. Abby and Zach will do it back and forth to each other at the dinner table. As much as I don’t want to encourage that at the dinner table it is way too cute and I just have to smile when they do it.

Physically Zach has not only grown, but is able to do many different things now. He can roll over both ways from back to belly and belly to back. He can also stay in a sitting position. He can’t quite pull himself up to sitting without help, but can stay there once in the position. He can also reach and grab any toy in his reach and pull it to himself. He also loves to suck on his toes now or his shoes or socks. Wet socks, gross!

Zach started “solid” foods a week ago Sunday. He has had 6 bowls of rice cereal now. He is doing very well with it. He definitely likes to eat. At first he pushed his tongue out and dribbled much of it onto his chin, but ate the entire bowl. We have started to make it thicker, which has helped that. He could probably eat more than we give him if we let him, but for right now we have started with 1 tablespoon of rice cereal mixed with breast milk.

Lastly, Zach appears to be starting to teeth. He loves to chew on anything. Whatever his hand can grab goes right to his mouth. We are still waiting to see any teeth, but they will be here soon enough. Zach goes for his 6 mo. well baby visit this coming Wednesday.