January 8, 2007

I can't believe that Tanner is already 6 months old. He is growing and changing so fast. Tanner started moving in my tummy, came out kicking and has not stopped. He moves non-stop all day and even in his sleep. He has been standing on things since he was about 3 months and pulling himself up and sitting alone at about 5 months. Now at 6 months he is crawling all around the house. I can't keep him out of the dog food. We were hoping that he would stop crying when he was mobile but unfortunately now he just crawls and cries at the same time. He is very strong willed and needs a new activity every few minutes. Tanner LOVES food and will eat anything we give him and he especially loves ice cream. On the sight of ice cream, he starts to kick, grab and say NEH-NEH-NEH until you are forced to give him some.

Tanner really likes to take a bath and play in the water so we took him swimming for the first time last week. We start swim lessons on the 22 of January. I'm sure it will be a great time. He also loves looking at himself in the mirror and playing with toys that make a lot of noise. He is now about 14 lbs (5th percentile) and 25 in. long (30th percentile). Tanner is a little runt although his head measures 44 cm. which is the 50th percentile. Unfortunately, he is not a weeble and does fall down and get a lot of bumps on the head. He still wears 3 to 6 months clothes. The doctor says that he is just small like me but I'm sure he'll grow to be tall and buff like Micky.