.Happy Birthday!.

Happy SIX month Birthday

to

Silas Jackson Andrus

Yesterday we went to little man's 6 month check up! My little ham now weighs 21 lbs and is 27 inches long!!!! The doctor was quite amazed at how "advanced" he is. She came in and started telling me how he will start sitting up, eating big boy food, crawling, etc. and I began to tell her that this little boy alrady does all that.

Silas now sits up on his own with no support, crawls around the house and eats his big boy food and drinks from his sippy cup.

AND big news people, Silas has started to pull himself up using the couch and his crib to a standing position where he will stand for a good 5 minutes or so before falling back down!

I am going to predict that I have an early walker on my hands ;). Which is fine with me because he is too heavy to hold.

Silas' doctor did ask if he was sleeping through the night and unfortunately he is not. She informed me that the best thing to do is to just let him wake up in the middle of the night and cry himself back to sleep because his bottle before bed should hold him over to the morning.

We tried this last night and I did not turn off the baby monitor and from about 3 to 5:30 Silas was just a talking and playing in his crib with periodic crying. However, I did not disturb him. We are going to keep trying this and hopefully it will work. Once he gets the sleeping through the night down then it will be easier for him to have sleep overs at his grandparents! ;)