Half Way Through His First Year ALREADY?!?!?

Happy to be 6 months old! 

OOPS!  

It really is almost unbelieveable that Braxton is already 6 months old.  I say this on all of his monthly posts but time is flying by, seriously!!  We are loving every single minute of it and would not trade for anything.  He is truly the happiest baby and smiles non-stop.  He has a onesie that says "smiley" on it and we joke that all of his onesies need to say smiley because it is non-stop.  We love love love to see his smile and hear his little giggle.  Let's see...things that he is doing now:

• I do not have his stats yet because he does not go to the doctor until the 6th but last time they weighed him he was 18.3lb and last time I measured height (a while ago) he was 26inches long. 
• He can sit up unsupported pretty well.  He sometimes knocks himself off balance because his legs literally run all the time or he will reach forward for something that is way to far for him to reach and face plant. 
• He can roll both ways (left and right) and both ways from tummy to back and back to tummy. 
• He puts his knees under him when he is laying on his stomach and will push himself forward,  but he is unable to get up on his arms at the same time.  When his knees are under him, his face is usually planted in the ground. 
• He eats two meals a day.  For lunch he eats 1-2 jars of baby food depending on how hungry he is and for dinner he gets a bowl of cereal and 1 to 1-1/2 jars of food depending on how hungry he is.  The rest of his "meals" are bottles in which he takes between 6-7 ounces.  Since starting food, he cut down on his bottles a lot.  He usually will only take 4 full bottles and might have a couple of ounces right after dinner. 
• He was sleeping really good until he got a virus that lead to an ear infection.  We spent many awake throughout the night because poor Brax felt so horrible.  He is feeling better now though and back to sleeping good! 
• He loves loves loves for us to sing, even if it is a made up song.  No matter what he is doing if you start singing he looks up at you with a huge open mouth smile.
• He now has FOUR teeth.  Two bottom and Two top.  The top two broke through at the same time he was sick, which only made him feel worse.  Poor baby.
• He loves to be outside.  We eat dinner outside sometimes or will bring him outside when we are working in the yard or on the house and he loves it.  His favortie thing to do is watch the trees blow. 
• He is still not a good napper.  Sometimes only sleeping a total of 1-2 hours during the day. 
• He puts everything in his mouth and drools like crazy all the time.
• We are still practicing the sippy cup.  He has not mastered it and a lot of times would rather chew on it than drink anything from it.  I still offer it to him every night after dinner and most of the time I just let him "explore" it which ends up in a juice soaked bib and outfit, but that is ok. 
• He still LOVES bath time.  We moved him to the toddler side of the tub now and he sits up like a big boy the whole time.  He still kicks his legs and has started swinging his arms like crazy to splash the water. 
• He wears 9-12 month clothes. 

I feel so blessed to be a mommy and I would not trade any part of it for the world.  The Lord truly blessed us with Braxton and we are so very thankful for that. 

Braxton, mommy and daddy love you to the moon and back baby boy.