Ixy Pixy

Another month has whizzed by and Peter has reached 7 months. He was unlucky after the chicken pox and got a nasty cold which left him with an infected eye, cough, streaiming nose and he lost his voice. But by the end of March he is happy and healthy again and glad to have his voice back, judging on the screams of excitement!

He’s doing brilliantly with his eating, and devours his meals with a fervour close to my own enormous appetite. He’s tried most veggies now and has tried a bit of chicken, beef and eggs. His favourite seems to be sweet potato. He is great as well taking water from his sippy cup.

He looks for certain toys now, like his Fireman Elmo. He knows when he’s finished his morning bottle to look over the chair and rocks on my lap till he comes up to play. Most of all he just loves bashing things against each other or on the table. Oh and most of our gadgets seem fair game to him. Perhaps it’s the geek in him coming out.

He talks to his toys and us now. Mostly it’s “ga ga ga” or “ba ba ba”, very cute. He loves peek-a-boo and pretending to hide into your arms. Everyone comments on his hair when we go out. It really is so blond, fluffy and stands a foot off his head. It’s gorgeous, even when he gets his porridge in it. He still has no teeth and is yet to roll over completly. All he wants to do is stand up (still aided atm).

Peter is recovering well now from the chicken pox. All his spots have scabbed over and started to fall off. He’s got all his usual energy back and is enjoying playing once again. Think there will be a few that mark. I don’t know, 6 months old and scarred already!

Peter has reached a big mile stone, he’s half a year old. I keep saying I can’t believe where the time has gone, but really!!??!!! Where has it gone!!??!! How has my tiny baby turned from photo A to photo B, just like that?

                   PHOTO A                                                                     PHOTO B

What a big boys he is now. He must be around 17 lb 8oz now, (he was 16lb 10oz, two weeks ago). Although February has been a short month, Peter has tried lots of new things. Swimming, sitting-up, his highchair, proper screaming, playing peekaboo, proper chuckling and eating food.

He is so interested in the world around him as well. When you carry him around the house, there are always certain things that get a squeal of excitement, like the framed prints in the hall and the kettle. He loves looking out the window and we play a very one-sided “I spy” game, which always gets a smile.

He’s getting much better at going to sleep on his own at bed-time since we started doing the same calming ritual each night. Bath, Bottle downstairs with dimmed light , Read a story, then we wait for the first yawns (around 7:30 – 8:00) and take him up to his room. We say its bedtime, and sit in the chair in very,very dimmed light and sing him “twinkle twinkle little star”. Then we tuck him into his cot while he’s awake and only pat him and make the “shoosh shoosh” noise after that. Trying not to pick him up after that unless he’s having a meltdown. Not sure why I’ve gone into so much detail there ! Perhaps I will want to remember what we did, if we have another baby.

He still doesn’t roll over, he kind of twists to the side.