Micah is now about 6 1/2 months old. He will be 7 months old on May 13th. He is growing like crazy lately. I took him to the doctor today and he is 20 lbs 6 oz! He is also 27 inches long. He actually grew 1 1/2 inches in one month. Micah is currently wearing a lot of 12 month clothing. He started to eat solids at the beginning of March and has been doing great. We just started fruits this weekend and he is starting to like it. He started to sit up at 5 months old and is sitting like a pro now. We have been working to get him to roll over, but he is not really wanting to do it. He has done it a couple of times, but not consistently. We really think he will be more mobile soon. He is showing signs of wanting to just go, however it may be! He loves jumping in whatever way he can. We have a stationary exersaucer and he jumps like crazy in it. We also have a johnny jump-up that he also loves. If you stand him up, he starts jumping like crazy. His legs are nice and strong. Overall, he is a happy baby, you just can't let him get hungry :) It is clear that he really wants to play with his big brother. Ethan is great at making him laugh.
Ethan has been sick once again. We will be so happy once the summer gets here, as he always does better then. I'm really thinking he needs ear tubes again. This was the first winter without tubes and it was his worst winter yet. I am going to set up an appointment with the ENT once both of us are out of school. We are hoping his hearing has not been too affected. Last week, he went to his kindergarten screening and he did awesome! I was so proud of him. He knew 25/26 capital letters, 20/26 lowercase letters, 9/11 numbers, all of his shapes and colors and wrote his first name. The teacher thought he did a great job and told us what things to work on over the summer. We go to his MFE/IEP review at the end of May to see what services he may have in kindergarten. He is getting close to being discharged from private speech. We will know more once we have his IEP meeting and we know if he will be having speech therapy at school. We are signing him up for Safety Town and for Social Butterflies this summer. Social Butterflies will give him speech and occupational therapy, specifically in social skills. He was in a similar program last summer and it really helped him, so we think this will be really good for him too.
Matt and I are both keeping pretty busy with work. I have a little over a month left. I go to camp with my students at the end of May, so we started to get me prepared for that this weekend. The first step was having him stay the night with grandma on Friday. It was nice because it gave us the opportunity to take Ethan to dinner, a movie and Learning Express. It was the first night I was away from him, since he was born. We also moved him to his own room on Saturday night. Prior to that, he had still been in the co-sleeping bassinet right next to me. He looked so huge in the bassinet and now looks so tiny in the crib! Both of us have done very well with it, so it is all good. We had our March for Babies walk last weekend and it went very well. We had a great time and raised around $2500!! Thank you to all of you that donated to us.
Here are a few pictures...
Stripped to his diaper at March for Babies!
Team Ethan Riley
Happy Easter!
Our Little Model
6 months old
Having fun at Aunt Joyce's house.
Having fun with their new baby cousin Madison.
