Seven!

Dear Lucas,

How has another month passed so quickly?! Your sixth month was just as full as the months before them. There is no slowing you down. So here is a recap of your sixth month:

We didn't take any trips this month, but you started going to MOPS with me so this is the first time I've left you (besides with a friend). The time does happen to be right when you usually have your morning nap, so you get a little fussy, but for the most part you're doing ok.

You had just turned 6 months when you began to pull up on my legs; then the couch and then everything. Cruising quickly followed! I couldn't believe how soon you started cruising down the couch. This led to A LOT of falls and bonks on your head as you just were not so steady, but we couldn't stop you from continuously pulling up.

You gave yourself your first bloody nose (note to the grandparents: it wasn't gushing blood, nothing to be alarmed about - just a little bit of bloody drainage!) because you insist on being in the dining room and we think you bonked your nose on the chair somehow. The very next day you gave yourself a fat lip. I don't know how that happened as I was in the bathroom. I can't watch you every single second of the day you know! Where in the "baby's first year" books is the milestone for first bloody nose and fat lip?!

By the end of your sixth month you became much more stable when pulling to stand and cruising, not as much falling now. You're more graceful when getting down as you have learned to squat and lower yourself to the ground. You even squat to pick up an object and stand back up.

You've stood unassisted for 2-3 seconds, but please let's wait a few more months before you attempt to start walking...I'd like your head to be bump and bruise free for a while longer.

You think you are too good to play with baby toys. We have a bin full of baby toys in the living room - easy access for you - but you show no interest. If you do play with any of them it is for mere seconds and then you are off to explore the house. You will, however, play with your sister's toys! We can go hang out in her room and you are happy and content to play with whatever she has in her room. You'll stay in there and play for up to an hour at a time. I guess it all works out though because she likes to play with your toys! I guess they are all "new" to her (even though most of them were hers!). She is pretty willing to share with you, for the most part, but then you become greedy and want what she has and try to pull it out of her hands. Then we hear, "No Lucas! Mine! Kayla's!"

Other things you do like to play with are magazines, papers, shoes, and computer paraphernalia. Your dad sits on the end of the couch with his laptop and you love to be right over there with him trying to pull on the mouse or bang on the keyboard. You're at just the right height to reach the shift and control buttons!

You don't like bath time at all; it seems you're afraid of the water. I try to get you to sit and you insist on standing. You did pretty well in the tub with Kayla last night, so maybe you're turning the corner on that.

We finally moved you out of the pack-n-play (and out of our room) and into a crib in your own room. Well a room that you share with my scrapbooking supplies! Sorry kid, but our house is only so big!

You are finally, finally, did I say finally, sleeping through the night. For the most part. You go to bed around 8:30 and sometimes you'll wake up around 3:30-4:30, but you have at least been putting yourself back to sleep. Not without some crying, but thankfully it's not like it used to be. It would be nice if you would wake up in a good mood though! Whenever you wake up from your nap, or in the morning, you wake up crying. Like you realize you're stuck in that crib and someone better come get me out right this second! Can't you just wake up and be content just playing in your crib for a few minutes?

You have this habit of banging on the tray when you're eating. It's always the right hand and it's done over and over, you only pause to take a bite then you start up again. I had to get a video clip of it because it's just too cute!

We've hit the stage where you have become attached to my leg. You can be perfectly content and fine and happy playing in the living room, but if I walk by and don't come pick you up? Oh my word do you get p'oed! You start crying and have to come crawling after me. It's not so easy trying to cook dinner with you clinging to my leg; I can't move around the kitchen very easily you know. Just a heads up - your daddy can hold and comfort you; he loves you just as much!

You love to play peek-a-boo -especially with your sister. Kayla loves to turn her back on us and we ask "where'd she go?" then she'll turn around and say "boo!" and you both just giggle. I love watching your interactions. Your other favorites are pat-a-cake and itsy-bitsy spider.

Here's to your seventh month my son! May it bring even more new discoveries about your personality and your likes and dislikes!