Today we had Liam's 6 month wellness check. Yes, I realize he's almost 7 months... :)
Dr Rick gave us the go ahead for solids too!! I'm stoked about this phase because that gives ME a break, but he said with his tongue thrust issue (also due to ventilator and his tongue resting position as a newborn), that getting him used to a spoon will help his tongue form other shapes necessary for speech development. Tomorrow I'll start him w/some veggies. (I did start cereal a week ago, for some relief due to teething) but I'm excited to see how he does w/something new!
I'm absolutely dumbfounded that he ONLY weighs 13.8lbs. I could have sworn he was closer to the 15-16lb range. But he is still gaining over an ounce a day, which is on the high side for a bf baby at his age. So that's good. He has more than doubled his birth weight, which is usually something most babies hit around 6 months. So considering that, he is doing great weigh wise. He is also 24.5" long with another big noggin' at 16 3/4!!
He did pretty good with his shots today. Mommy couldn't be the hero, and I was FORCED to hold his arms down... :( But he only cried for a little while, and Jax did a good job of trying to comfort him, thus earning his 4 CARS stickers that Dr. Rick gave him. Other than that, his check up report was PERFECT.
He's a lot more fussy tonight, and that is probably a combination of teething and the shots. I hate that he's so miserable. With Jax, we only had a few restless times when he was teething, and with Liam, I've spent lots of nights up with him, rocking, walking, bouncing, feeding, etc... to no avail. Hopefully he'll get his first tooth soon which should give him a few weeks of relief before starting on a second tooth.
He's just about to the crawling stage, but not sure if he'll actually start since he's figured out he can just roll and scoot wherever he wants to go. It'll be fun though if he does, because then I anticipate lots of brother to brother playing!!
That's all for his update. His next appointment is Nov. 1st.
Hope everyone is doing well!
Shylah
oldest, but there may be the opportunity to move him into the 3's class later. His new teacher, Mrs. April seems eager to have him in her class, and I think that everyone is hoping that he'll help teach the other kids as well as learn new things, make friends, and get the child to child interaction he needs.
He went to sleep a happy boy last night knowing that we were going to school in the morning. Daddy met us there and helped me get him to his class, and settled in, where he 
