Justin at 6 Months

Justin turned 6 months old on 25 January 2010. We took him to the clinic on 26 January 2010 for his monthly checkup. He weighed 8.1kg (an increase of about 300g from the previous month), and 66cm in length.

Some observations:

• Not much changes to his milk intake. Still on roughly 3oz of expressed breast milk every 2 hours while at the babysitter's. Otherwise, fully breastfed on demand.
  
• He has started his solids! He had his first taste of cereal on 19 January 2010. However, the babysitter had already let him try some mashed potatoes for a few days before that. He seems pretty eager and wants to grab the spoon. His stool is now getting thicker, but does not smell as bad as Julian's... yet.
  
• He seems more aware of things and is interested in whatever we're doing, e.g. wanting to grab the cup we're drinking from, or curious when he sees Julian playing with something.
  
• He has started to be fussy when travelling in the baby car seat, especially at night.
  
• He has started a bit of "creeping", i.e. lifting his bum when on his tummy to try to move forward, but ends up tipping over on his sides.
  
• He has also fretted when our attention is on Julian *slaps forehead*.
  

We're happy that Justin is now exclusively on breastmilk for 6 months (safe for some water, of course, and his recent solids). We hope to carry on as long as we can (we still have stock left!). Speaking of "stock", we had some friends over sometime ago and they had helped themselves to icecubes in our freezer. They had thought the containers of frozen expressed breastmilk contained "tau foo fah" (beancurd jelly)! :o)


[Justin's cherub-look]


[Justin's first cereal]


[Don't leave me in here too long, okay?]


[Justin with greenpeas on his head]