Six months old!

Jacob actually turned six months old a few weeks ago, but we just had his six-month appointment today, so, well, all's cool that ends in a timely manner, right?

Here's the big boy!

Jacob is doing great! I mean, we think so, but the doctor confirmed this today, too. New stats are in the sidebar, but, as I suspected, Jacob's slightly smaller than Natalie at this age: 15lbs, 4oz to her 16lbs, and 27 inches to her 27.5 inches. I'm totally aware that those differences are likely measurement errors.

Jacob now sleeps in his own room - at least at night. Naps are still a mixed bag / work in progress. 

He eats cereal and purees, and so far he seems to eat everything. No teefs yet, but they are reportedly on their way (as they have been for the last two months, sigh).

He laughs, he smiles, and he even makes his weird growl (which we call the dinosaur noise). He can also say "dada," but this doesn't yet seem to mean Mike. In fact, Natalie is still his rockstar; I totally expect that some version of her name will be his first word.

Jacob loves to laugh and smile. He'll gladly play peek-a-boo with you. He'll also try to charm strangers. In fact, when we flew to Detroit last week, we had an early morning flight. Jacob was a gem, but the cutest part was that he passed a good portion of the flight just trying out his smiles on the sleeping passengers. It was like he was sure that if he only tried hard enough, they'd smile back. 

Here's a video of Jacob laughing in response to some heavy literary content.

(click to see the video on its own website)

He isn't yet sitting stably. I mean, he sits, but then he sort of tripods forward in slow-motion. Likewise, he can roll from his front to his back, but he still rarely does it. On the plus side, he's getting more adjusted to being on his stomach . . . .
 

Next up: our trip to Detroit and Natalie's 4th(!) birthday!