Andrew is 6 months old!

Hard to believe Andrew is halfway through his first year! One of the things I love about babies this age is how much they change in just a few weeks. It's amazing to watch them learn everything...

Andrew is now at the stage where everything he sees amazes him. And he wants to touch it. And put it in his mouth. This has meant that he has become much harder to put to bed as he just wants to touch his sheets, touch his crib, look around his room, and on and on.... However, once he's asleep he has been doing really well. He started sleeping through the night on July 21st and has done so pretty consistently since then. For the record, "sleeping through the night" means that he goes to bed between 6:00 and 6:30 then we do a "dream feed" right before we go to bed - he mostly sleeps through this. Then he sleeps until anywhere between 5:00 and 6:30 am. So, all in all, pretty good!

Which brings me to one of his mannerisms that is so distinctly Andrew.... Anytime that I rock him in my arms to settle him down before putting him in his crib, he immediate shoves his hand down the neck of my shirt then sucks on his hand through my shirt. We captured the moment a few days ago....

While he mastered the art of turning over while swaddled weeks ago, he has yet to really embrace the idea outside of that situation. He seems perfectly content however we put him down and most times that he does it is by pure accident (he just actually did it accidentally while I was typing that sentence!). We're convinced he will crawl before he really starts rolling over....

As for crawling, he has clearly figured out that it is possible. In the past 3 or 4 days he has started getting up on all fours and rocking back and forth. However most movement is propelled by his arms as he pulls his body across the floor. Something tells me it won't be long! For anyone interested in his progress, here's a video (apologies for the music in the background - turns out when you are making a video that does not involve the 3 yr old they do their best to somehow still be represented in the video...)

He continues to be one of the loudest babies we've ever seen when angry. Or tired for that matter. The easiest way to know Andrew is tired is that he starts yelling. Really loud. Not crying. Just yelling. Constantly. For no apparent reason. It's charming. Really.

When not tired or hungry though, he's a real charmer. How can you not love this guy?

Here are some more photos!