Happy Valentine's Day! Here's something to put a lot of love in our hearts here: 6 months of Freddie 💖 He had his 1/2 birthday on Friday (celebrated with a nice helping of mashed avocado and then pureed pears for dessert), and it's hard to believe how quickly it feels like he's always been here as the completion of our family - yet how different our lives are from just 6 months ago, and from a year ago when we first told Hendrik that he was going to be a big brother.
Also hard to believe what a different creature he is already from that first month's photo, going from this scrawny but sweet little lump that couldn't do much to a baby who can hold his head up to watch and interact with the world and has food and toy preferences and particular things that make him laugh. There have been many long days (and nights!!) to get to this point, yet what a short amount of time to develop all of that - the saying "the days are long but the years are short" is a saying for a reason, clearly.
At 6 months Freddie continues to be so smiley and sweet. He loves observing the world in general, and especially watching his big brother do anything; gnawing on a couple of particular teethers but mostly his hands (can almost get 2 fists in at once), anyone else's hands, or the beads of his pacifier clip; eating carrots, avocado, oatmeal, beans, any kind of fruit (and gets kind of mad when he sees us eating and he doesn't get to); singing Wheels on the Bus and Itsy Bitsy Spider; and talking to mommy and running his hands through her hair when laying on the changing table.
He's developing a delightful chunkiness and starting to get quite good at supported sitting, not so good at rolling yet since he still kind of hates tummy time, but he has rolled over a couple of times on his own. He finally is on a fairly consistent nap/eating schedule over the last couple of weeks, and thankfully has (mostly) been sleeping through the night since January, with some very painful weeks to get us there... Most impressive trick is getting his own pacifier into his mouth pretty consistently - he *loves* that thing - but we are impressed by and gush at pretty much everything he does, from his baby noises to his toy grabbing to his attempts at making his big brother laugh. Can't get enough of that Freddie-cakes!
Speaking of big brother: admittedly, when I bought these monthly stickers it was partly to track Freddie's growth but also in big part so that I could do exactly this - a comparison image to Hendrik's first six months! I wasn't sure how much they looked alike at first, but I think they definitely look like brothers by the 6-month mark, don't you?
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