"Creepy" Crawler In My House!

Becoming a mom has turned me from someone who used to look forward to blogging regularly into someone who forgets she even has a blog. It has been on the bottom of my long list of duties but I am going to try to move it up a few notches.

Reid is 6 months old this week and today he weighed in at 19.8 lbs. and was 27.5 inches long. We had his 6 month check-up today which included 3 shots in the legs. I am so glad Ben goes with me to all the doctor's appointments because I need the emotional support after watching Reid scream so hard he can barely catch his breath, poor little guy. I am upset about it long after he gets over it, and he's the one who just got 3 stabs in the leg and has no idea why! I know so many moms that go to every doctor's appointment alone and I don't understand how they do it. Unless he absolutely couldn't get away from work for an hour, I would be sad if he didn't offer to come to them.

He is doing so many things now like sitting up by himself, getting on all 4's and lunging forward in his first stages of learning to crawl, and he got his first tooth this week. Every little bitty new thing I see him do makes me so proud. It is so fun watching him learn things and seeing him being proud of himself when he accomplishes things.

He moved into the the "Creepers" room at daycare 2 weeks ago and seems to like it. He is the youngest in the room by almost 2 months I think, but I would much rather him move up with the slightly bigger kids than stay behind with the babies. He has been progressing really quickly and I think being the oldest in the baby room would slow that down. I really think part of why he is sitting by himself and nearly crawling at his 6 month birthday is because of how interested he is in the other kids at daycare.

Also this week is our 4 year wedding anniversary. I'm sure Ben has reminders set out for himself in different places so he won't forget about it. This summer makes 5 years that we've been together and it only feels like 2 or 3 to me. It makes me so sad to think of how quickly time is passing. We will be so blessed if we live to make it to 50 years together... and that's only 9 more of these 5 yr. segments. When Reid turned 6 months old this Monday I told Ben, "We have only 35 more of these before he's 18 and moving away to college" and it made us both so sad. It feels like it's only been 6 weeks!