6 months!

My little baby had his half-a-birthday yesterday! I can't believe it's been six months!

My little man now rolls both ways, sits without any support, stands, sucks on his feet, says "mommommommommommom", eats real food... he's so grown up! It's been fun looking through his old pictures and seeing the little changes in his face.



I know it's so cliche to get teary-eyed and mumble about "my little baby is so grown up" but really, it does me get teary-eyed. He's growing so fast! He's such a smiley little boy- even if his smiles are a little doofy sometimes, I wouldn't have him any other way, because you can't help but smile along with him.

These 6 months have been hard, I won't lie. I've never been so tired. I'm only just now to the point that I consider myself fully healed from labor (you don't want the details). Even though I am now 7 pounds below my pre-pregnancy weight, I own about 4 shirts that fit right (not counting my frumpy work t-shirts) and I'll admit that I still wear my maternity jeans. I've lost probably two thirds of my hair down the shower drain as my hormone levels go back to normal (fortunately I had more than enough to begin with). I have stretch marks on my chest and the silly linea negre line on my belly won't go away. My right arm has become significantly beefier than my left (if "beefy" is an adjective that could ever be applied to me) because I tend to hold him in my right. I've changed probably 1000 diapers by now and spent about 400 hours breastfeeding. I've been pooped on, peed on, barfed on, sucked on, and bitten on a daily basis.

And it has all been SO WORTH IT. I already can't imagine living without him. Our family feels whole and he's brought so much love into our home. I can't wait to see him grow up but at the same time I already miss my tiny little man who did nothing but sleep:).
Daniel, thanks for a wonderful 6 months!