One Half

Today was Ezra's half birthday! I can't believe he's already six months old. An update on what he's been up to:

I forgot to mention that he spontaneously started using his first sign a few weeks ago: he lifts his arms to be picked up. I've been assured that this "counts" as a real sign ;) He started doing it from his high chair, and now he does it whenever he wants to be picked up. Another current interest is anything that is behind him. I suppose he's just discovered the concept of "behind." He always turns around to look behind his back, especially if Baruch or I are there. I described his game of peek-a-boo, but he also seems to have invented a new game of sorts: sometimes rather than playing peek-a-boo he just pulls whatever he can find over his face and then starts freaking out until we pull it off. But when we pull it off, he's smiling, not scared. It's sort of strange, but funny. He gets super hyper and squeals a lot, too. I think he just has a lot of energy! I have a feeling I'm going to be chasing after him a lot as soon as he's mobile.

We've all had a bad cold. Thankfully Ezra seems to be getting better, although he's still a bit stuffy. It's made nursing at night (lying down) difficult for him. He's been so cute; instead of nursing he tries to just nuzzle up to me, but he usually can't get back to sleep that way no matter how hard he tries, so he reluctantly latches on and nurses a little (really just lightly sucks a few times) and then he's back asleep. It must be difficult to nurse lying down with a stuffy nose.

Here are some photos from today (I'll post some more in another post, also):