{"id":2017,"date":"2013-11-20T00:30:51","date_gmt":"2013-11-20T06:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/codyreport.com\/blog\/?p=2017"},"modified":"2013-11-20T00:30:51","modified_gmt":"2013-11-20T06:30:51","slug":"6-months-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/codyreport.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/20\/6-months-old\/","title":{"rendered":"6 months old!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Elliott is 6 months old!\u00a0 He is growing so fast and I am trying to enjoy this “baby phase” while it lasts.\u00a0 Laurel’s nickname at this age was “mellow yellow” because she was so laid back and easy going and Elliott is the exact same way.\u00a0 Laurel is far from mellow now, so I guess we have to wait and see how long Elliott’s mellowness lasts.\u00a0 He is usually in a great mood and loves to smile and “flirt” with everyone he sees.\u00a0 William mentioned in the 5 month post that Elliott was babbling quite a bit and that has not changed.\u00a0 Elliott babbles a lot in the morning when he wakes up and in the evenings when I pick him up from daycare.\u00a0 Apparently he likes to “talk” to his teachers at school too because they comment about how much he talks and a special chair he has so he can sit right next to the teacher and talk to her while she feeds the other friends in his class.\u00a0 We also have heard what sounds like his first word and you can probably guess what it is….. “dada”.\u00a0 Yep, just like Laurel, Elliott has decided to say “dada” first, which is so thrilling to William.\u00a0 Even Laurel acknowledges that he says “dada”.\u00a0 Yesterday when Laurel, Elliott and I came in the house from school, Elliott was babbling and said “dada…dadadadada”.\u00a0 Laurel looked at him and said “daddy is not home yet Elliott”, so she clearly understood his words to be referring to daddy.<\/p>\n

His 6 month check-up is not until Thursday morning, so I don’t know his stats yet, but I think he about 18 pounds, so still quite the chunky baby.\u00a0 He also seems to be pretty long.\u00a0 Here is what I can tell you about his development.\u00a0 He has rolled over a few times, but not consistently and is starting to gain more balance to sit up for a few seconds before falling over.\u00a0 Just like Laurel at this age, he enjoys chewing on anything he can get his hands on, including his toes!\u00a0 We are just starting solid foods, so I’ll have to comment on that later, but he seems to be off to a pretty good start.\u00a0 He is constantly smiling and happy and loves to see his reflection in the mirror.\u00a0 Bath time is becoming quite interesting because I end up with more water on the floor it seems than on him.\u00a0 He kicks and splashes water everywhere, but seems to enjoy bath time.\u00a0 The only thing I am having trouble with is getting him to stay asleep once he falls asleep and we lay him in his crib.\u00a0 He usually startles each time someone puts him down, so I am hoping he will grow out of this phase soon and be able to self soothe on his own.<\/p>\n

He loves playing with and watching Laurel.\u00a0 She does a great job of keeping him entertained, getting toys and pacifiers for him and singing to him when he cries to help soothe him.\u00a0 We still have to watch her to make sure she is not too rough, but she if often a great help.\u00a0 I posted a photo below of the two of them.<\/p>\n

Cutest. kids. ever.<\/p>\n

I have some photos and videos I will try to post over the next week or so, but here are a couple to enjoy.<\/p>\n

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Elliott is 6 months old!\u00a0 He is growing so fast and I am trying to enjoy this “baby phase” while it lasts.\u00a0 Laurel’s nickname at this age was “mellow yellow” because she was so laid back and easy going and Elliott is the exact same way.\u00a0 Laurel is far from mellow now, so I guess […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kids"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pmOjo-wx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/codyreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/codyreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/codyreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codyreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codyreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2017"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/codyreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2021,"href":"https:\/\/codyreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2017\/revisions\/2021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/codyreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codyreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codyreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}