Thursday Thoughts: 6 months old…
I’m joining Jen at Ramblings of a Suburban Mom for her Thursday Thoughts linkup, so here are some thoughts currently in my head.
Jenson is 6 months old and I can’t even stand that. I can’t believe that’s he’s growing up so quickly! I know that everyone says that about babies, but it doesn’t make sense until you have one yourself. It’s going too fast! When I rock him at night in the dark in his room, I swear in the dim light I can see what he’s going to look like as a little boy. He’s already looking less baby-like, but I just want time to slow down so I can enjoy this fun stage with him right now.
At the same time, I thought that he’d put on some serious weight and I weighed him at 16.2 on our new scale (I even checked my “math” with a calculator because I”m that bad at it). At his 6 month appointment today, he weighed 15.8 lbs. I guess the difference is that I weighed him with a cloth diaper and clothes. So…I guess he’s a little smaller than I thought still.
It’s time to really start to think about how I want to start Jenson on food. I decided I’d wait until after his lip and tongue tie revisions to really start anything, and I’m leaning towards Baby-Led Weaning, which means that he’ll get larger pieces of food to play with and mash with his gums as he chooses. I read the Baby-Led Weaning book and it just made sense. It’s how people use to feed their babies before the jarred baby food boom began. I’ll probably end up doing a little mix of both “methods”. Die-hard BLW’ers say you CAN’T do both – that it ruins the benefits..but whatever. At the very least, I’ll probably use some of the mesh feeders for food that are more choking hazards.
I’ve been watching episodes of The City (spin-off of The Hills, with Whitney) and like all shows set in NYC, it makes me think about how living there is probably like a whole different world. I’m so intrigued by New York City, but have never gone. It’s kind of silly because it’s not all that far away. Other than see the typical tourist sites, I don’t really know what I’d do though. It’s not like I’m going to go shopping there.
I swear I’m going to get back into working out regularly again – more than twice a week (not counting volleyball). I swear. It’s gonna have to be next week though.
