Adventures of the Eubanks: Jackson at 6 months

Happy half-year birthday sweet baby boy! You are such a happy baby nearly all of the time and you give us lots and lots of smiles that melt our hearts. All three of us simply adore you!

At 6 months old, Jackson:

Continues to be very long and lean. He measures 28 inches in length (90-95%) and weighs 15 lb, 10 oz (10-25%)

Wears a Size 2 diaper, 6-9 month pajamas due to his length, but can get away with many 3-6 month clothes

Still wakes up once in the middle of the night.

Takes 3 naps. Luckily, at least one if not two of those naps are finally longer than 45 minutes.

Has two teeth (or "teesh" as Julia calls them) that have started to come up.

Loves his mommy and daddy, but absolutely adores his sister and lights up any time Julia is around. I'm pretty sure she feels the same way about him. They have a great time laughing and "talking" together. Here's the 3 buddies altogether right before taking a family walk (Jackson had to wear his sister's sunglasses since we don't have any for him):

Gets the biggest smiles when he gets wrapped up in his hooded towel after a bath!

Attended his DSI (digital surface imaging) appointment on March 30th. They placed this stocking over his head to help smooth out hairs and give them a clean image of his head. The stocking didn't bother him one single bit. He never acted as though it was even on. Then they put him in the middle of this thing below which shoots photos of his head at the same second from multiple angles to give them a 3D image of his head shape. It was fascinating.

Got his band (helmet) on April 13th. He fusses in the moment when the band is put on his head, but he never complains after that. Unfortunately, we're learning his skin in sensitive - we've had the band for two weeks and he has yet to meet the 23 hours/day guidelines because he has experienced different skin issues from the helmet. Regardless, the Cranial Technologies staff is amazed at how nicely his head shape is improving despite the limited amount of time he's spent in the band.

Laughs the hardest when his sister jumps around and he "jumps" with her. See video.

Tries to make "B" sounds and blow bubbles. See video.

Continues to HATE tummy time, thus he has yet to roll from his belly to his back. He got very close one day, but his arm was in the way (since he has yet to figure out how to prop himself up while on his tummy).

Has rolled over seven times from his back to his belly. Nobody witnessed the first four times (it either happened while I had walked out of the room or while he was sleeping in his crib). I finally witnessed it the 5th time while he was playing on the living room floor and rolled to see his sister and some toys. Jarret finally witnessed it the 6th time when he rolled over while on our bed.

Started on rice cereal in April. As you can see below, he was not impressed.

Got off to a rocky start with trying foods because he had a stomach bug, followed a week later by lots of congestion. Once he kicked those and yet still wasn't very receptive to rice cereal, we moved on to oatmeal which he did better with. By the last week of April, he had started pears and seemed to moderately enjoy them. It's still such a shock to me though because he barely opens his mouth (if at all), whereas Julia was like a baby bird with mouth open as wide as it would go.