Ryan, today you are 6 months old. You are half way to your first birthday, and I don't know where the time has gone. I've noticed recently that you aren't so tiny anymore. You look huge when I put you in your swing, which you love by the way and sleep in everyday at nap time. You are such an amazing little person, but Mommy is really having a hard time with you already being 6 months.
It's not that I don't want you to grow. I really do. I love watching you develop into your own person, but you see, you're my baby. You are my last baby and I want to savor every second of you still being a baby. Your brother and sisters have already grown. They are so independent, but you still need me for so much. I know you will always need me and you will ALWAYS be my baby. I just can't believe that this part of my life is over and completed, but you, little man, have completed it so well.
You are darn near perfect. So happy and content. You have such a good personality. You laugh and are playful, and you hardly every cry. You like to "talk", which means that you yell and screech a lot! Ryan, you and I are inseparable and I wouldn't have it any other way. I wake you up most every morning and I put in your bed almost every night. As I leave your room I make sure to tell you how much I love you.
Until today you ate only breast milk, and I am very proud of that milestone. This evening Daddy and I gave you solid food for the first time, oatmeal. You seemed to really like it. Actually, I think that you did better than your brother or sisters did their first time. Although, they all started solid food at 4 months. I think that waiting was good for you and I'm glad that we did. I hope to nurse you until you're 1. Mostly because I know it's best for you, you won't take a bottle, and it's cheaper, but really I love having that connection to you and being the one who nourishes you.
So far you can't sit up on your own, but that's ok I know you will. You roll from side to side, and although you don't crawl yet you can scoot yourself all around when you are on the floor. You smile at yourself in the mirror and respond to your name. Your face becomes very serious when Daddy and I try to get you to say "Mama" or "Dada." I swear you study everything you see. You definitely take in the world around you. You don't have any teeth yet, but again, that is ok. I know that they are coming, and if you are anything like your brother you will be trying to bite my finger off before long. For now you are in 3-6 month clothes and size 3 diapers. You have big feet and dark blond to light brown hair, which is so hard to see that you look bald unless you are super close.
Someone told me recently that the better a baby sleeps is an indication of higher intelligence. I don't know if that is true or not, but if it is then baby you are brilliant!
I'm sure that there are a thousand things that I have left out, but for now just know that I love you and I am so excited for the next 6 months and beyond, but can we please just slow it all down a tad?
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