Six Months Old!!!!!

Daddy helps Noah try on his newest jammies... what a big boy in the button up "Cars" pj's! He is so long in the torso and his legs are like stilts, that he has outgrown all the little baby sleepers already. We have to shop in the toddler stuff just for the length of outfits. Needless to say, he's so lean that the bulk of his clothes are far from tight around his tummy, but the length is always stretched to the max.
Noah is really getting good with his finger dexterity... he puts his own pacifier in his mouth, and even surprised me the other day when he held his hand in front of his mouth when he sneezed, so his pacifier wouldn't go flying out of his lips! He munches on it more than he sucks on it, trying to soothe his aching gums I imagine. Still no teeth for Noah, but hopefully soon! Can't you just MELT from the handsome eyes he looks at us with though?!!!

Yes, his hair really is this wild 99% of the time! ha... He has a little ring around the back of his head where most of the hair has been rubbed off, but now that he's sitting on his own, and upright more often than laying down, hopefully some of that hair will start to fill back in. In the meantime, he just loves playing with his brothers, and is SO curious when he sees the camera come out (thus, no smile... he was just laughing before I snapped the picture, but wonders what's in front of mom's face when the lens cap comes off).

NOAH'S SITTING NOW!!!!!

Noah has really been learning how to sit on his own!! He even has such great concentration, that everything can still go in his mouth while practicing his balance and sitting techniques. Here he slobbers all over his rubber ducky... one of his newly crowned favorites!!! It gets tricky to hold on to after a while, because it's thoroughly coated with his slobbery drool.
When not sucking on a toy or a toe, he's sucking on his tongue and trying to soothe his gums, which are surely going to burst with teeth erupting soon! His amount of drool and slobber surely indicates he's working on teeth at least in the NEAR future, if not immediately (although I've been thinking they're going to pop through the surface in his mouth for the past couple months). I think waiting for baby teeth to arrive is like waiting for Christmas when you're 5... it just seems to never happen. ha.

Daddy and Noah have countless moments of enthralling conversation!!!! Noah's looking over at Coconut, Kristen's doggy, as he tries to come over and steal Noah's ducky.... little does the pooch know that there's no way he'd give it up on purpose (unless his mommy left it in Wisconsin by mistake) ha. But you can just see the balance and skill he's developing quickly as he grows WAY too fast!!!!!