Six Months
Fritz is already half a year old! Hard to believe half of his babyhood has already flown by. I failed to post about Fritz last month (a blogging first, ugh) so we have extra pictures this month.
He continues to be the cutest baby of all the babies. I love his Charlie Brown head and expressive eyebrows.
He's a rosy, jolly fat man who loves to be tickled on the ribs.
We all went to Atlanta last month for Uncle Matt's graduation. That deserves its own post to memorialize the logistics that went into taking four kids on the road, but for now, let's just say Fritz performed admirably. He didn't sleep for s**t but that's to be expected. He did charm people on the airplane and mostly tolerate getting held by pretty much everyone in Georgia.
Also, baby's first boat ride!
Now that we're settled back at home, we're trying to get him sleep trained again. Things started going downhill before Atlanta, and then we traveled, and the backslide continued until he was up every couple of hours, demanding to eat. It was like having a newborn again. So Karl's been going in every time Fritz wakes up at night so that he doesn't think it's milking time. It was angry rage for a couple nights. Now he's still waking up a couple times but getting himself back to sleep without too much fussing. I think we've broken his spirit.
He's crushing naptime though! In the last two weeks he has settled into an excellent two-nap schedule. Assuming we're at home and he can stick to the schedule, he's up around 6:00, down for nap at 9:00, sleeps for about 90 minutes, is awake from 10:30-1:30, and naps again from 1:30-3:30. I've had several days of Fritz and Heidi napping at the same time in the afternoon. If I let the older kids gorge on Netflix during this period, the silence is nothing short of GLORIOUS.
He can finally roll over, but only from front to back. The first kid to roll that way first! The others all went back to front first. He just hates tummy time that much.
He also wiggles and kicks from side to side, which makes him spin around in a big circle like the hands of a clock, but he hasn't figured out how to use it to get to a particular location yet. So he can't roll the other way, can't get anywhere, and can't remotely sit up yet, but he does super love being held up to stand on his little legs and being flown/tossed in the air.
We drove to the exurbs to pick up a Craigslist exersaucer just like our old one. He despises it.
Fritz thinks the other kids are hilarious.
Especially Heidi. Sorry I can't figure out how to rotate this.
I started giving him mush a couple of weeks ago because he kept trying to dive face-first into my dinner. He likes most things (NOT BANANAS) and especially goat cheese. It's a very sophisticated baby who goes through a log of chevre every week.
Last week Dave commented that Fritz made it to six months and we were "in the home stretch." With four kids aged six and under, most folks would say we're just at the beginning of this parenting journey, but Dave is right -- this is the beginning of the end of our baby years. We've had or been expecting a baby pretty much nonstop for the last 7.5 years. Now we're rounding into this household's last six months of babyhood. It's bittersweet.
He continues to be the cutest baby of all the babies. I love his Charlie Brown head and expressive eyebrows.
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| Our Minnesota nice guy! |
He's a rosy, jolly fat man who loves to be tickled on the ribs.
We all went to Atlanta last month for Uncle Matt's graduation. That deserves its own post to memorialize the logistics that went into taking four kids on the road, but for now, let's just say Fritz performed admirably. He didn't sleep for s**t but that's to be expected. He did charm people on the airplane and mostly tolerate getting held by pretty much everyone in Georgia.
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| I'm on a boat, mother.... |
Now that we're settled back at home, we're trying to get him sleep trained again. Things started going downhill before Atlanta, and then we traveled, and the backslide continued until he was up every couple of hours, demanding to eat. It was like having a newborn again. So Karl's been going in every time Fritz wakes up at night so that he doesn't think it's milking time. It was angry rage for a couple nights. Now he's still waking up a couple times but getting himself back to sleep without too much fussing. I think we've broken his spirit.
He's crushing naptime though! In the last two weeks he has settled into an excellent two-nap schedule. Assuming we're at home and he can stick to the schedule, he's up around 6:00, down for nap at 9:00, sleeps for about 90 minutes, is awake from 10:30-1:30, and naps again from 1:30-3:30. I've had several days of Fritz and Heidi napping at the same time in the afternoon. If I let the older kids gorge on Netflix during this period, the silence is nothing short of GLORIOUS.
He can finally roll over, but only from front to back. The first kid to roll that way first! The others all went back to front first. He just hates tummy time that much.
He also wiggles and kicks from side to side, which makes him spin around in a big circle like the hands of a clock, but he hasn't figured out how to use it to get to a particular location yet. So he can't roll the other way, can't get anywhere, and can't remotely sit up yet, but he does super love being held up to stand on his little legs and being flown/tossed in the air.
We drove to the exurbs to pick up a Craigslist exersaucer just like our old one. He despises it.
Fritz thinks the other kids are hilarious.
Especially Heidi. Sorry I can't figure out how to rotate this.
I started giving him mush a couple of weeks ago because he kept trying to dive face-first into my dinner. He likes most things (NOT BANANAS) and especially goat cheese. It's a very sophisticated baby who goes through a log of chevre every week.
Last week Dave commented that Fritz made it to six months and we were "in the home stretch." With four kids aged six and under, most folks would say we're just at the beginning of this parenting journey, but Dave is right -- this is the beginning of the end of our baby years. We've had or been expecting a baby pretty much nonstop for the last 7.5 years. Now we're rounding into this household's last six months of babyhood. It's bittersweet.
He is so cute and perfect! And I think his head might be bigger than Marks!
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