6 months old!

This first picture is Joey on the day he turned 6 months old (Jan 29, 2007).

I took this picture of Tanner on the day he was supposed to get his 6 month check up (he was actually 6 1/2 months old--and the hospital didn't have any parking, so I didn't make that appointment, we went the following week). I didn't have Joey's picture handy when I took Tanner's, I just rememered that he was wearing the Elmo outfit from my mom and that he was sitting on the changing table. I can see a lot of similarities and a lot of differences.

Joey's eyes were brown-brown when he was a baby, Tanner's just now is settling on brown, after months of back and forth of hazel and green too. And his brown is a lot lighter than Joey's.

Tanner weighs more at 6 1/2 months than Joey did at 8 months, so Tanner's got some more meat on those baby bones.

Joey was already pulling up to standing at 6 1/2 months, Tanner still loses his balance sitting on his own. He's no wear near standing yet.

It's so funny how similiar and how different your own kids can be. Tanner's personality has really come through. He's so happy most of the time. He loves to laugh and smile. He's much better in the car seat than Joey was. He seems to sing and coo a lot. He still adores his big brother. He loves hanging out in Joey's room and playing with Joey.

He gives these sloppy, big, wet, open-mouth kisses to us. He was sleeping through the night for a few weeks, but the past week or two, he's waking up to eat twice during the night. But he goes back to sleep much better than before, so I'm not losing as much sleep as I was before he turned 6 months. He's eating solids twice a day now. He weights 16.04 lbs. He's 27 inches long. He loves the dogs, and tries to hold onto them whenever they get close. He really loves remotes. When he's extremely sleepy, he gets so giggly and will chuckle so loud over nothing. If he's falling asleep in our arms, he likes to put his hand up and touch our face or neck as he falls asleep. Sometimes he even falls asleep with his fingers in my mouth. He's hilarious.