6 months

• At your 6 month doctor visit, you are 24 inches and weigh 16 pounds, 8oz.  You were very sad about your shots.
• You have discovered your hair and frequently pull it and cry out in pain.  Hopefully you'll realize quickly that you're doing it to yourself! Your hair has also started to grow again and is getting long and fluffy.
• With the discovery that you can reach the top of your head, you have also started pulling your headbands off!
• You don't like being swaddled to sleep anymore.  Mostly because you're too strong and break out of every swaddle wrap we've tried.  So we just swaddle you from the chest down and leave your arms out, or we don't even do that and just lay a blanket over you.
• We started sleep training a few weeks ago and you're doing really well!  We've stumbled upon the magical sleep combination of laying you down on your side, not swaddled, with binky and lovey.  If I lay you down right when you start to yawn or rub your eyes (after about 1 hour 45 minutes of being awake) then you go right to sleep without fussing and sleep anywhere from 45 minutes to 2 hours.
• You sit up very well and only fall when startled or reaching for something.
• You love to give "kisses" to people by pulling yourself to their face and gnawing on their cheek.
• You hold things firmly in your hands and rarely drop them anymore.
• We started rice cereal on your 6 month birthday.  You loved being offered real food although you're definitely getting used to the texture!