6.5 months

Here's the latest on Kanon. He's cutting his first teeth, both bottom middle teeth. He babbles all the time or at least with Kurt and I. He seems to get quieter around other people and when he's not in his own environment. As soon as we get home he's back to his normal wild self running (in his walker) all over the place and screaming and making all kinds of noises. I think he gets that from me. He rolls over all the time both directions. Some days he acts like he can't but it's just because he doesn't want to. He can sit by himself very well, still falls every once in a while but has gotten pretty good. He can even look up at the fan or above him and not topple over. We expect him to be crawling anytime this week. He's been up on his knees rocking A LOT this weekend. Last week he was on all fours and moved his knees. Today he moved his hand for the first time. Any day now he'll figure out how to get them all going at the same time. Life is about to change drastically!! He can grab our hands and pull himself to a sitting position and then to stand up on his own. Which by the way makes baths a little harder now that he's learned to grab the side of the tub and stand up. He knows how to shake his head back and forth to say "no" but he doesn't really know what he's doing or what it means. He's always got a smile on his face when he does it though. Go figure! He has learned there are things in the house he's not allowed to touch and today we caught him about to touch it and stopped to look at me and decided to move away from it instead. He's already so smart. He laughs and smiles all the time, usually a very happy baby. He loves the dogs and terrorizes them by ramming them with the walker. He can blow raspberries and make clicking noises with his tongue. Some days that's all he'll do and just cover you in spit and then other days he'll just refuse to do it at all. Bananas, peaches, peas, green beans and squash seem to be his favorites so far. He loves his sippy cup and does a good job of drinking from it. Some water he actually drinks but most he spits out like a waterfall. We think he just likes the cold water on his sore gums. It seems to make him happy though. Like most babies he's rather flexible and can stick his toes in his mouth to suck on them. Amazing and weird all at once. He is sleeping through the night again....for now (knock on wood)! I'm sure that will be different next week though. Just when things fall into a schedule the little booger decides to grow or change somehow and it all goes out the window.