Happy Half-Birthday, Big Boy!!

Dougie, you are 6-months old today!! It is so hard to believe that you have been with us six whole months. You have grown so much since the day you were born. You started out at 7lb 15oz and 22in long. We will find out on Monday exactly how big you are now. I can't wait to tell everyone just how much you have grown.


In addition to your size, you have grown in so many other ways. You now have two teeth and are actively working on getting a couple more. This is the first picture of your teeth. The only way we could get a picture was to take it while you were crying. Sorry about that...

You are very good at sitting up by yourself, although you occasionally throw yourself backwards, so we are still very careful to have someone sit behind you when you are sitting up. Your cousin Christy had a good time protecting you today. You have not started crawling yet, but you are just about ready to take off. It won't be long now.

You are interested in everything, and you want to get to whatever interests you. You can tell from the above picture that you thought DeeDee's shoes looked very interesting. You were ready to pull them off of my feet. You tried to do that, but we distracted you because they were really too dirty to be eaten by a little boy.

You adore your Great Grandma...look at the way you are looking up at her. She adores you, too. You are lucky to have each other!!

You love to devour books!! You are not so much into reading them yet...just literally devouring them. For some reason, you have a real "taste" for reading!!



Great Grandma, DeeDee, Christy and Ally took you out to lunch today. Since your mommy was not there, you did not get your long awaited first taste of real food (you have learned to smack your lips like a pro whenever you see anyone eat), but you did enjoy watching all of the servers come and go. We all decided that when you are with us, we should ask for a table by the kitchen and you will be content no matter how long we linger over our food.

After we got home, you played for a while and then you got very tired. When DeeDee left, Ally was giving you your bottle. We hoped that you would fall asleep while you were drinking it and then take a good long nap so that you would be well-rested when Mommy arrived to pick you up. DeeDee just talked to Mommy. She said that you didn't get that long nap, so you are a very tired boy right now. She is going to give you a bath and put you to bed very early tonight. She hopes that you will sleep through the night...that would be a very nice present for you to give her on your half-birthday!!


Dougie, I hope that you enjoy the rest of your half-birthday. DeeDee and Pappa will see you on Sunday...and hopefully you will finally get to eat some "real" food with us!!