John Hayden is 6 months old today...it's crazy how fast the time is going! Here's his monthly update:

--He hasn't been for his well-baby check-up yet (he'll go on Thursday), but when I took him for a sick visit a couple of weeks ago, he weighed 18 lbs. 3 oz.
--He's still eating 6 oz. every 3ish hours He typically has 5 bottles a day (and none at night). I'm still trying to get him to eat cereal and baby food. He's a little more interested in it, but still makes faces and spits it out. I've been trying to give him a little something every night so that he'll hopefully start liking it, but so far, that's not really working. He's tried cereal, applesauce, bananas, sweet potatoes, and peas. He doesn't like any of them (even when I give him the same thing multiple days in a row). Hopefully, he'll get on board with baby food soon so that he can get to the good stuff (table food!) at the appropriate time!
--He's wearing size 3 diapers during the day and size 4 at night, but I'm about to move him up to size 4s during the day as well. The 3s just aren't fitting that well although they are supposed to fit 16-22 lbs. Maybe his chunky thighs are keeping them from fitting right? He's mostly wearing 9 month stuff, but can fit in some 6 month stuff as well. He can probably wear some 12 month stuff, but the things I have are for middle of the summer and it hasn't been warm enough to put them on him yet. (The outfit above was 12 months, though.) He's still in 6-9 month pajamas.
--Sleep has still been horrible this past month, then last week it was great, and then it got bad again, or should I say "back to normal." I just have to keep telling myself that one day--maybe soon, maybe not--he'll sleep soundly all night long! He sleeps face down a lot and it drives me crazy! I try to turn his head to the side, but he will just turn it again. Also, there seems to be a Bermuda Triangle around his crib, as he has dropped two pacifiers out of it this past month and I have been unable to find them anywhere. We've all turned the room upside down looking for them...it's so strange.
--He gives big belly laughs now and will laugh over something you say, any physical comedy, and sometimes when you tickle his ribs. He laughs the hardest and most for Juliette. He pretty much thinks anything she does is funny. He's still smiling at strangers, but only if we are holding him. If they are holding him, he just stares them down. He's quite the roller now and like I said last time, will not stay on the rug and his blanket. He can operate all the toys on the Exersaucer now and at physical therapy the other day, he was really interested in one of their pop-up toys (you know where they hit the different buttons to make the animals or characters pop up), so I went and got some "bigger baby" toys out of storage this weekend, which I've been needing to do anyway. He can sit unasssisted only for a few seconds, but we keep practicing with him. I imagine in the next month he'll be able to sit alone. Still no teeth (I thought for sure he'd have them by now)! He can pass toys from one hand to the other (although he's been doing that for a little while), and just in the last few days has started trying to get up on his knees (unsuccessfully, though). We're wondering if he'll actually crawl properly since he's a bigger baby and they oftentimes don't crawl when they have more weight on them. Nevertheless, things are starting to pick up with his large motor skills, so it will be fun to see what the next month holds in that area. (Oh, and he "talks" a lot and Juliette says he says "Daddy" but he's not really.)
--We had another physical therapy session this past week and he is doing great. He doesn't have any tightness in his neck and moves it both ways easily now. The flat spot on the right side of his head has greatly improved and is not as noticeable now, but there is still some flatness. We're pretty optimistic that it will round out the rest of the way once he is spending majority of his time sitting up.

And the comparison picture (click on it so you can actually see it):