Happy Six Months, Baby Boy!!

Where has the time gone? I can't believe I haven't blogged since well before Harrison was born! I never even posted his birth story! Which, by the way, was a piece of cake, minus the post-delivery trip to the O.R. The synopsis: Pitocin at 9:30am on August 5, 2011, water broke at 11am, epidural (not until!!) 12:20pm, started pushing at 2pm, and he was born at 3:09pm (8lbs. 10oz. and 20.5" long). It was short, sweet, and relatively painless once I had the epidural. I am so grateful to have had such a great birth experience.
Now onto the fun stuff! Harrison LOVES solids. I was so excited to get to this point with him and it's been so much fun. He has tried avocado, green beans, peas, carrots, sweet potatoes, apples, bananas, peaches, pears, and most recently mixed apple-banana-strawberry stage 2. He loves it all! There isn't anything he won't eat! He really loves bananas mixed with his cereal. I have been using the Baby Bullet to do his bananas and avocados. I am trying apples this week but those are more work. I am not sure when we'll try the meat dishes, but it will be soon. He just loves to eat. Right now his schedule looks like this:

7:30am Wake up, bottle (7oz), then 3T cereal with a container of fruit
11:30am Bottle (8oz), container of vegetables (at Appletree)

3:30pm Bottle (8oz)

6:30pm 3T cereal and container of fruit and sometimes another container of vegetables!!! This kid can eat!

7:30pm Bath

8:00pm Bottle (6 or 7oz depending on how much he ate for dinner)

8:15pm Bedtime!

We feel so grateful he sleeps through the night but he has since about 8 weeks. We know our routine and schedule (loosely based on Babywise principles) are largely responsible for this.

Harrison has been perpetually sick since November though. He got a cold after a week at Appletree, and he had it through Christmas. Looking back it was probably several colds but they overlapped and there was no start/end points. He finally got better when he was home with his dad over break. Back to school in January, and back to being sick again! He was just starting to get better and it's clear to me that he's got another cold. His nose is super runny, his cough sounds bad, and you can just tell he doesn't feel great. Our unseasonal weather probably accounts for a lot of this--it bounces between 40-50 degrees and 20 degrees. It's been crazy! He is back on Omnicef for his ears once again. I am considering a visit to the ENT before our trip to Florida since I am worried about the pain it may cause him to fly.

He really loves going to school and seeing his friends and teachers. The Infant Room has a lot of great staff that really seem to care about the kids. He loves the Jumperoo, and between him, Rhys, and Nathan, they all want their turns bouncing! They do the cutest art projects and I feel really grateful to have these mementos of this time when he's small. At the dr. last week he weighed 19 lbs., 12.5 oz. I am guessing him to be around 29" long. The 12 month Carter's outfits are getting hard to snap in the crotch. The 12-18 month stuff fits just perfect right now. He's just growing like a weed. It's like having a 1 year old in an almost six month old baby!

I'm already dreaming about his birthday party... but for now I am enjoying every minute with him as we keep seeing more and more of his very funny and laid back personality. Just when I think I couldn't possibly love him more, I do!