27 Weeks

Don't you love how babies can contort their bodies? They're like Gumby. A couple weeks ago Santino was even putting his toes in his mouth.
 
Here's the stats from his 6 month well check
Weight: 15 pounds 11 ounces (17th percentile)
Height: 26 ½"  long (45th percentile)
Head Circumference: 17.13" (56th percentile)

He's not a huge baby, but to think that he's grown 7 ½" in length since birth seems like a lot, huh?

We discovered a day or two after he turned 6 months that he has a tooth coming in! It's the bottom left front tooth. When I'm feeding him baby food, lately he likes to bite down on the spoon. He's been using teething rings, which seem to help as well.

Not much new in the food department, but he did eat some chicken with sweet potatoes for the first time last week.

Today he sat up on his own a couple of times for about a minute before I needed to catch him from falling over. Another thing that he did today, was he kept grabbing my chin and turning it toward his face. I of course took the opportunity to give him kisses. Lucky for me, this boy loves to be kissed. He kept doing it over and over again. Eventually however he started grabbing my throat and pinching it. Ouch! haha...this boy has sharp fingernails too. Rob is the designated fingernail clipper expert for the boys. It seems like he's always trimming Santino's nails!

We had SNOW folks! Last Thursday it started. The ice came on Saturday and it just began melting yesterday. I was giddy like a little kid. We don't get much snow around here so it was kind of a big deal. Where we live I'm guessing we had about 6-8 inches. Santino liked watching the snow through the window. I didn't take him out in it, but I took some photos of him dressed in some winter garb. Maximus on the other hand went outside and we had fun together. I'll try and post some photos soon.

Hope you have a great week!