I cannot not believe six months have gone by.. in a flash might I add.

6-months-old

Steel is six months old today, January 29. SIX MONTHS! Everyone I tell, from friends to family to viewers who see me and ask how old my little one is now, just can’t believe it has already been six months. I concur.

I really do remember being in the hospital like it was yesterday. I remember our first night home with him like it was last night. It was a hell of a night, excuse my language, but there’s just no other way to put it. Steel cried all night. Steve and I really didn’t know quite what to do.  We were both running on no sleep, so tensions and frustrations were high. Somehow, we made it through that night… and the past six months.

We’ve learned what works and what doesn’t work. For example, he HATES being cradled if he’s not tired. Don’t do it, don’t even try it. He will scream until you sit him upright..and then, like magic, he stops. Through trial and error we learned, okay, he seems not to like that position if he’s not tired. What I have learned is that when he is in one of his moods, screaming and what not,  if I walk into the kitchen, viola..again magic.. he stops. I don’t know why. I just know that most of the time it’s all I have to do to make him happy again because if I can walk back into the living room he will start to cry. It may have something to do with the kitchen being really bright, plus there are three windows that he can stare out. I told Steve, I think sometimes the baby just wants a change of scenery. Don’t we all?

On his way to his 2-week check-up

He may be six months old today, but his clothes say a different story. Up until he was three months old, he was fitting into his newborn-to- 3- month clothes just fine. Then, he had a growth spurt and zipped right past his 3-month clothes onto the 6-month. There were clothes he never wore, clothes he never even tried on, because he grew so fast we didn’t have time to move onto the next stage. Now, he comfortably fits into 9-month clothes. We can squeeze him into 6-month stuff, but it gets hard to close the buttons in his little bottom area. As we try to keep up with his growing, boxing up the clothes he no longer fits into and saving them in case we have another boy, it’s just amazing to us how little he once was and how much he has grown.

In fact, we watched a video the other day that Steve had made for my dad when Steel was just a month old. We were blown away at how tiny he was in the video. I told Steve, “we had no business taking care of something so little!” My mom just laughed.

I’m sure in another six months, we’ll be doing the same thing..looking back as he’s crawling and stumbling around, wondering where did the past six months go?