Liam 6 months

6 months...half a year.  That is how long we have been blessed with Liam.  He is absolutely so wonderful! He is just forever happy and content.  He goes along with any and everything, making no fuss, he  just seems happy to be with people.  Liam smiles to everyone and so far is fine with being held by lots of different people.  When I am instructing Gospel Kids, I have Liam with and all the kids absolutely love him and want to hold him or play with him.  He just smiles being passed around from child to child.

Development wise he continues to change.  This month the biggest change is that he has become mobile! He can scooch around from one end of the house to the other in no time, finding lots of things on his way.  Liam is incredibly curious and if he starts getting a little whiney all you need to do is put a new toy or item in front of him and he is chattering away again.

In general Liam is very quiet most of the time.  He doesn't cry, but he doesn't say a lot either.  The times that he does talk is when he wakes up from a nap or if he has something in his mouth.  Sometimes he wakes up in the middle of the night and just talks to himself for close to an hour, just saying da da da or squealing happily. The other noise Liam makes is laughing.  He is quite ticklish and giggles like crazy when tickled.  He also likes if you bounce him a bit and say some kind of silly thing, over and over again.  He just laughs and laughs, especially if he is tired.

Also this month Liam has begun to sit in a high chair.  He seems very happy with having his hands free to grasp and hit his toys around.  Also for a few days now he has begun to eat rice cereal with fruit pureé and each day he gets better and better at it. The first days it all came out again, but just today he ate a whole portion.  The funny thing was that when he saw me coming with the spoon he smiled really big and looked eager to eat.  He made happy noises while eating and if there went too long in between spoonfuls he would start whining until I gave him more food!

Liam also started sleeping in his own room.  (Benjamins old room, aka. office).  The first few nights I was determined to have him sleep in his own room the whole night, but after going back and forth many times and him waking up more than normal, we have reverted to putting him to bed in his own room and then when he wakes up the first time to eat (anywhere between 10pm and 1 am) then I take him into our room and feed him there where he eats and sleeps the rest of the night.  Søren often leaves so we have more room.  We are all getting more sleep, so that is top priority right now!

Finally, Liams rythym.  He actually has a pretty solid rythym now.

Morning wake up: 7am
Nap: 9-9:30am
Nap: 11:30am-2:30/3pm
(Nap: 5-5:30...if he waked up at 2:30 or earlier
Bedtime: 7:15pm
Feeding around 11pm, 1 and 4 but most of the time just falls asleep again.


In between all that sleeping he is doing all the above mentioned things, including being nursed about every 2 hours. We love him and love getting to know him more and more, as do his big brothers.

The very first time with "solid" food

I can sit up in my baby carriage

Sleeping in my big bed