Yes, he turns 7 month today. ;)
Oh boy,...what a month last month!
I just realised that six month old baby have to go through a lot of things at the same time, which not only confuse the baby, but also make the mum scratching her head badly.
I have mentioned a bit about the early days of Evan's six month old, few weeks ago. It was quite difficult times. He had everything change at the same time. I'm now confused where to start first. For the start he had to change his diet. First he had to drink new - more advance formula milk, then he had more cereal a day and start to explore other food such as puree. As the result he was then eat/drink every 2 hours. I was then started the fun world of making a solid food for baby. Good news is Evan is not fuzz with new food. He just eat everything! He start with carrot puree, then greanbeans. All 2 table spoon portion.
As I tried to be more independent and confident going out with Evan, we then went to mothers group for the first time. It was good. Evan and I had fun, so we went to another meetings. He seemed to tolerate attention from others better now. Think he get used to see crowd and strangers and they were not making him 'too' upset anymore.
His gum was so desperately itchy that makes him upset most of the times. Two teeth at the bottom gum has finally emerged about the end of October. I was excited, he looked so cute with two tiny white teeth in his mouth.
Six month old also the turning point when some of his furnitures are no longer suitable, like the rocking chair and car seat (who can also be installed in the stroller). Whilst his weight is not longer suitable for the rocking chair, but we thought it still fit and safe for him, so we still use it. However he was definitely squeezed in the old car seat. So we got him a new car seat which permanently installed in the car. This is when I too have to adapt with new way to get him in and out the car.His sleeping habit was also changed. He used to sleep in the big 'playing' bed or stroller during the day. As he get older, I started to put him in his cot for morning and afternoon nap, and it was actually worked easily. However he still sleep in our room. I don't think I'm ready to leave him alone in his own room at night!
As for his skills, his hand control developed enough that he can pull an object towards him. He could grab a toy easily. He has so much grabbing, let it go, pick it up, put it in the mouth. Toys are everywhere.... in travel cot, on carpet, in his bed, and on his playing bed, and his cot. Our living room is always messy with his toys lying around the carpet.. and he was only 6 month old!
He has learned to roll over, but only in two directions. So I didn't worry to leave him in the big bed with pillows barricades. When he lay on his tummy, he did it longer than used to. When he lay on his back, he was strong enough to lift his head, shoulder and chest up, then fell to the side, and make a half sitting pose for a few second then fell to the back. Looked like he want to be able to sit up so bad.
He still love play in the saucer. He got more comfortable jumping, moving around, biting, and banging all the toys around the saucer. When he got excited he would scream in really a high pitch! Everything flying around him was still give him a joy of excitement. Surprisingly he seemed to be a bit bored with Barney and friends. It didn't take his attention anymore. But he took more attention to intro and credit part of most of the shows, like Pingu, Oswald, and Igloo-gloo, The magic key, Thomas and friend, and Bob The builder. The most funny thing was he tried to make me laugh a couple times! At one time I pretended to sleep on the carpet in front of tv, while he was sitting on the rocking chair. In my surprise I felt a gentle tap of a little hand on my knee and a pull of my skirt. I saw him looking at me with very big smile and eye! :D He enjoyed grabbing and pulling my hair - a lot! As well as enjoying biting my cheeks!
Early November I let him hold the bottle by himself. He could hold the bottle the whole feeding when he wakes up in the morning (around 4am). Other times I should still watch him carefully as he could easily threw the bottle away.
His schedule since he had puree on his diet was this:
8 am = bottle
9 am = bath
10am = cereal
10.30am = morning nap
12am = bottle
2 pm = puree
3 pm = afternoon nap
4 pm = cereal
6 pm = bottle
6.30 = sleep
4 am = bottle
So now you may think when I can have my sparetime. It was almost imposible! He didn't have much sleep during the day either which was a bit frustrating. The longest was only 1 hour. Mostly only sleep 30 - 45 minutes.
The hectic mode is actually continuing when he turn 7 month old. I started this posting 2 weeks ago. Glad that it finally finish! (*Phew..*)
