6 Months Old!!

As usual, I've done a terrible job keeping you all updated on Ty, but now that his 6 month birthday just passed on Monday, I figure I better catch up. Tyler has reached several big milestones, such as

• Rolls over front to back and back to front
• had his first and second swim in a pool
• puts his weight on his head and walks his feet up to scoot or roll onto his side, it's highly amusing to watch
• Now eats rice cereal, pears and carrots and he's even sucked on an apple slice while mom or dad held it.
• He's a champ eating from a spoon
  
• sleeps from about 8pm-6am without having to eat, still wakes when he's cold or wants his binki but that's much better than having to take 40 minutes to feed at 2 or 3 am.
• can sit up when supported
• loves to stand when being held and bounce up and down
• Smiles and laughs all the time
• jabber non stop and loudly, a couple times in the middle of the night for no reason.
• Holds his head up for a long time and can straighten his arms out all the when when he does.
• Pulls his knees up beneath him getting ready to crawl, sometimes he sleeps like that with his rear up in the air.
• He just scooted from the middle of our bed to the edge and then dove right off the edge, good thing I was there waiting to catch him.

First time in a pool at Bob and Kate's, not to sure about it, it was pretty cold.Second time in a pool at our condo with Christy and the girls. He loved the broken spa because it was lukewarm bath temprature, he had a blast in there.

I'm sure there are more I'm forgetting but that gives a run down. He's a huge spaz that is constantly in motion, and heaven forbid anything go on while he is eating, he'll either turn and look and get totally distracted (already ADD, it drives mom crazy!) or he'll cry because your interrupting his eating time. He's also very sensitive to loud laughter, maybe he thinks we're all laughing at him, I don't know. Maybe it brings back horrible memories when his mean old uncle Bob (with Jareds encouragement) help a peice of ice up to his foot and everyone laughed while he screamed. For the next 20 minutes anytime he saw uncle Bob he would break down, poor kid. He's starting to get attatched to mom and dad, we both walked out to take trash out and left him with Grandma and Aunt Katie and he cried and cried till we got back.

For his six month Grandma Malone went in with us to get him a bouncer activity center. It's been fantastic. He has such a good time bouncing and trying to get everything on there into his mouth, though he gets a bit frustrated when he can't do it. He's also had his first time throwing up. I think he got some bad milk and some motion sickness looking at houses because he threw up all evening, like 6 times two weeks ago. It was so sad, but even through that he would smile now and then. He slept real good that night propped up in his bouncer and was fine the next morning. He's getting so big!