Conrad's HALF Birthday

Just the sweetest boy! Even while sick, he just has the sweetest demeanor.

Size
Almost 17 pounds and wearing 3 month - 6 month clothing. He's in a size 2 diaper - soon moving to a size 3.

Eyes
Still blue

Hair
So super blonde that he actually has more than it appears because it's so light. I absolutely love rubbing his soft downy head!

Sleep
Oh my goodness: the entire last month of sleep has been horrendous! Completely and utterly exhaustng! Waaay worse than him as a newborn, eh! I was sick, then Hanley got sick, which got me sick again, and Conrad got sick, then I got a sinus infection, and now he currently has an ear infection. Oh fun! So that definitely had to attribute to so many wakings during the night between both kids. He used to sleep so good at night, it has to get better sometime soon right!?

Diet
Breastmilk, cereal, and purees. I actually have given him some puffs and yogurt melts, not many and not often, I just can't figure out if he likes them or not - he makes all sorts of funky faces but keeps eating them.

Milestones
Signed 'dadda' and 'milk' for the first time during 24 weeks.

Before crawling, to get around (24 wks) he would start sitting on his butt, go into a crawling stance on his hands and knees and kind of pivot around back to his butt. He started crawling at the tail end of 5 months (25 weeks) - it's the absolute cutest, he crawls on one foot while using the opposite knee.

He pulled himself up to a standing position in Hanley's crib at 23 weeks. He hasn't pulled himself up in his own crib, I'm assuming because the slats are smaller and round and he is able to grab onto them because the slats in his own crib are wide and more rectangle in shape.

At the beginning of 5 months (22 weeks) he was able to go from belly to almost able to sit up unassisted but he didn't know how to push one of his arms up further and so he would just end up leaning on one of his arms. Then at 23 weeks he finally mastered sitting up from a laying down position with no problems.

Likes




He likes his momma, likes watching his sister and playing with her toys. He also likes to steal little sips of my water, it's so cute - he does this little grunt if I drink water and he wants a sip.


Dislikes
Being tired.

Nicknames
Bubba
Brother
Bub
Buggy

• First ride in a cart - kept sliding and falling over so we held off for a couple more weeks. (10-01-15)
• First pumpkin farm (Kingsway) (10-08-15)
• First Boo at the Akron Zoo - he was a spider (10-24-15)
• Sat in his first restaurant highchair at Applebees (10-24-15)