7 Months

Happy New Year!!
Carter is now seven months old!

December was quite the month:

• Your first tooth popped through on December 18, quickly followed by another on Christmas day. Your two bottom teeth are completely in and judging by the biting and drooling, you're working on another.

• You love to give hugs and kisses, though there's a fine line between kissing and biting. You also love to pull my hair and yank Daddy's glasses off his face.
• Your first Christmas! We celebrated with Gramie, Grampie, Beau and Mortie in Fallbrook on Christmas Eve. You received a lot of books and had a ton of fun tearing the wrapping paper. You also decided to pet Beau for the first time, which quickly turned into slapping Beau. As long as Beau doesn't get in your face, you don't mind him too much.

• You also spent the day on New Year's Eve with Grampie and Gramie in Fallbrook, though Mom and Dad spent the day in Coronado. 
• You've gotten better at sitting on your own and don't fall over very often. You haven't pulled yourself into a sitting positon yet, but you keep trying really hard. It looks like you are doing Pilates when you try to sit up! Sometimes, if you are already lying up against something in a reclined position you can pull yourself up to a seated position.
• You can stand with support! You love when we hold you in a standing position. You look around with a huge smile on your face.
• You have become SO vocal. Lots of different screeches, yells, laughs, and other noises to talk to us and yourself. We finally put a mirror in the backseat and now you happily chat away while we drive, so mom and dad can both sit in the front.

6 Months

Seriously, how has 6 months already gone by?!? I feel like we were just in the hospital, waiting for Carter to be born, and now he's already half way to one year. Some days I miss the tiny, snuggly newborn, but I totally love this new stage we're in!

Carter loves to talk-he yells, babbles, and makes all sorts of funny noises. Often, right before he falls asleep, he gets super chatty and babbles on and on before giving in and sleeping. We always crack up when we're lying in bed, snuggling him and he starts in talking. I wonder what it will be like when he is actually talking?

We moved him out of the infant carseat to the convertible carseat and he is so much happier in the car now. His new sear is so much roomier and sits him up higher, so he is able to see out the window, which he loves.

He is able to sit on his own without support, but isn't able to pull himself into a sitting position yet.

Stats
Height: 28" (93rd percentile). He fell a bit on the height chart, but is still a very tall baby. I was really surprised that he's only 28"; I was sure he was at least 30" already.

Weight: 17 pounds 8oz (50%) We were nervous going into this appointment that he'd fallen in weight percentiles again because he looks so skinny, but he's finally moved up! He actually hasn't gained a ton of weight though-only about 3 pounds since the 4 month appointment. I think he's actually closer to 19 or 20 pounds based of my own weighing him at home. His legs and arms were hanging off the scale at the doctor's office and it took several tries to get a reading on his weight.

No more well baby checks until his 1 year appointment, so we won't really know his height and weight again for awhile, unless we try doing it ourselves.