Gordon - 6 months

Happy 6 months Gordon!!! Today is Gordon's 1st half birthday as my best friend Liz would say. In some ways it's been a really loonnnggg 6 months. lol! I love my youngest son very much, but he has not been what I expected at all.  Yes, yes - I know that every person is an individual, but considering who his dad and Cyril are, I was expecting him to be exactly like them...not that's not fair - I was expecting him to be more like them in personality. Go with the flow, laid back, easy going fellows. Gordon is NOTHING like that. lol.  He's a higher needs, sensitive, fussy baby.  Things have to be just so for Gordon, and I can already tell that he isn't going to transition well, just like Dawn and Spencer.  He LOVES commotion.  Unlike Cyril who, if he's tired enough will fall asleep, loves to sleep in the car, and etc. Gordon is not like that, if I want him to nurse decent, I need to stop talking (which as everyone knows is hard for me), be content with him flashing my breast in the room(if I don't have a cover on), so that he can look around, or go into another room (even that isn't a guarantee that he'll nurse), for the most part he has stopped really nursing well during the day, and will nurse all night, because he doesn't want to miss anything going on during the day.  He loves to be rocked and watch everything going on. He's just fascinated with all of the comings, and goings of the older children.

As far as weight stats, we'll find out on Monday how he's doing, but I can tell you as far as weight goes, he won't be going off the charts for it that's for sure.  But as far as developmental milestones he's doing very well...it's been a very busy month for this little guy. At the end of October, he realized the advantages of rolling around the room, and became fast at that quite quickly.  Since the end of September, he's been pushing him self backwards, almost army crawl like.  Also at the end of October he also started getting on all 4, and rocking it's only been recently that he started pushing himself backwards on all 4's so it won't be long that he's actually on all 4's crawling.  This past month, we've seen him go from rolling around the room for a few weeks, to realizing that if he army crawls it's faster. So depending on how quickly he wanted something he'd do one of each. The living room is no longer safe from him, nor are the kids toys if left downstairs.  He's getting really close to crawling forwards on all 4's.  He hasn't quite put together yet, that as you move a knee a hand needs to move forward too, so he face plants and gets all mad.  He has gotten really good at sitting up by himself in the last 2 weeks. Boy, doesn't he babble...it's been so adorable.  He loves to "talk" to you.

He also started this month on rice cereal & fruits/veggies, he loves it, we started this month, since he's been trying to swipe at people's food. Guess he really wants the food huh? lol.  With his sensitive tummy, we've been talking it nice and slow. Even though he wants more and more, his tummy shows us, that he's not ready for all that he wants to eat.  So as for now, he's getting rice cereal with a fruit/veggie at night and breastmilk the rest of the time.  He still doesn't take a bottle, but if wanting to drink out of people's cups more and more. So I've been thinking of trying a sippy cup, and bypassing the bottle stage all together. :) So as you can see it's been a very busy month for this little guy, even on top of battling a cold.

God Bless