Gabe's Halfway to ONE!!!!
Well my sweetest Gabe,
This past month has been lots of fun! We've been cooped up inside a lot because of really cold temperatures and snow. The temperature more than the snow keeps us locked inside... we're Clevelanders, we LOVE snow. Daddy keeps saying how he can't wait until next winter when you'll be able to play outside in the snow!
While inside we read lots of books (your favorites seem to be "Who Are You, Baby Kangaroo," "On the Night You Were Born," and "You're My Little Love Bug"), practice tummy time and rolling, dance to music, play with links (you're favorite toy) and just have so much fun together. You've also liked beginning to spend time in the excersaucer but are still too little for the jumper. You also love the game "Where's Gabe" or peek-a-boo. Laughs, smiles and big squeals erupt from you whenever we play it. I think that you like just about everything - you're a big ole lover of life!
Along with loving life, you sure love you're parents. You don't like to be with anyone else, and while it makes me sad that you cry when other people hold you for too long, it does warm my heart to know that you love us this much. But we're working on you going for longer periods of time with us being out of your sight. However, when we're together, you're pretty much attached to my hip!
Gabe, you love your oatmeal! You get to so excited when you see it, kicking your legs and wiggling around and then we can't seem to get it in your mouth fast enough! Today, in honor of your 6 month birthday, instead of cake, you'll eat green beans. I'm not sure how you're going to feel about it initially, but I'm sure once you realize they go in your tummy, you'll love them!
You're getting on a pretty regular schedule with your daily routine. Bottles at 7, 10:15, 1:30, 4:30 and 8:00. You used to eat your cereal at 6:30, but today we did it at 8:30 so you'd have room for your green beans tonight. I think we'll try to do your dinner around 6:00 each night.
We've gone to see you Dr. R this month too. Unfortunately you have to have your first eye surgery in April, however he was very happy with how your vision is progressing (perfectly) and how hard you work to open your right eye lid. You're daddy and I are really proud of you too! Because Dr. R said we needed to keep patching we bought you new patches! Really cool ones with camouflage, sports, toys and pirate stuff on them. They're harder for you to get off too, so it's a win-win for the cuteness and use factors!
Physical therapy seems to really be helping you too! You're so very close to rolling over and can sit for short periods of time all by yourself! You've also started holding on to your feet, which I think is one of the cutest things ever and always makes you laugh. Good old lefty (you're left hand) is also improving! Way to go Gabe!
The only area where we are not excelling is sleep! You slept for a majority of the night for 11 days in a row and then quit. Now you're back to waking up (and needing Mama) every hour or so. And nothing we do seems to help. We've put in a call to Dr. F to see if not sleeping for extended periods could be schizencephaly related. I guess we'll see!
But since you are the sweetest, happiest baby I've ever met, a little sleep deprivation is okay :) You're happy like 95% of the time and have the best laugh. I'm fairly certain we could bottle you're laugh and sell it for big bucks! It would probably encourage world peace as well.
Gabe you truly are the light of our lives and we're so excited to see what great adventures the next 6 months (and years to come) bring to you, and us!
As evidence of one of Gabe's newest favorite activities, pictures of Gabe playing Where's Gabe (peek-a-boo) with his 6 month sign:
And I love this plaid outfit of Gabe's. The cutest part is that it has snaps on his bottom like old-fashioned baby clothes!
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