Zero and a Half!

Can you believe it? Our chunky little monkey is already six months old! Or, as Courtney likes to call it, he is "zero and a half" years old. ;-) As noted in an earlier post, he is now eating yummy rice cereal and is as charming as can be. And, up until his surgery last week he WAS sleeping through the night. So much for my short-lived glee on that one! But we have had to give him medication overnight as he recovers, so all of that effort has been undone. Oh well! For the most part, he has recovered pretty well from the surgery so far; but, as you might expect, we have had a few rough patches. He has clearly had some pain, he seems to have limited his own mobility (he doesn't wiggle and roll around very much), and has had some side effects from the medications. One medication in particular has given him a very dry mouth and cracked lips. So uncomfortable for the poor little guy! But as of yesterday, he is now off all medications except for the occasional dose of ibuprofen for pain. Hooray! So, we are celebrating him starting to feel better as well as reaching that exciting milestone of Zero and a Half! Oh, and "zero and a half" also happens to be the same number of teeth he has; I just noticed this week the very tiniest ridge on the top of his first tooth breaking through the gums! Now that he's off that medication, we can expect some serious drooling! Finally, I am including one more picture of our Little Buddy because I think it is so funny: don't you love how he is holding his chubby little hand over his chubby little belly like that? So cute!