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Halfway to One

**Posting this late, because the pictures and I weren't getting along on the day I actually blogged.**

November 24
As of the 21st Soren Fisk Mederich is officially halfway to one.  Unreal.  Justin took him to his 6 month checkup today and our Little Man grew a whole bunch in the last two months.  His current stats:

27 inches - 68th percentile
19 lbs 6 oz - 79th percentile
18.5 inch head circumfrence - 99th percentile

Yes.  He has a huge dome.  :)

Eating:
I've still been pumping 4 times a day so Soren gets a mix of breastmilk and formule.  He gets a bottle 5 times during the day and I've been breastfeeding him once at night.  We do solids for sure once a day and sometimes twice. 

Sleeping:
Soren goes to sleep between 7:30 and 8.  He wakes up between 3 and 5 and I feed him back to sleep and then he gets up for the day between 6 and 7.  Our pediatrician said that he doesn't need night feedings any more, so we will work on weaning him of the early morning feeding.  When we decided to wean Via from nighttime feedings she made it really easy on us.  Justin and I had made this big elaborate plan of how we would handle her nighttime wakeup, and when we decided to implement the plan is the same night she started sleeping through the night.  Somehow I doubt we'll be as lucky this time around. 

What's new:
Soren is super roll-y.  The other day I put him down to do tummy time in his room and I ran downstairs to flip the laundry.  I came back and he was gone!!  I found him in the closet.  No joke.  So now we are once again at the place where there is no safe place in the house.  Super!  Soren loves bathtime and has learned that he can splash.  He gets super talkative in the bathtime and blows lots of raspberries.  We still are not very scheduled which has it's pros and cons.  We start the day at 7:00 a.m. and start to wind down at 7:00 p.m., but whatever happens in the middle can vary a bit.

The pics:  I really need to up my picture taking with the kiddos....

My favorite Guys

 
Selfie.  We can't help it.
 
Such a sweet little man.








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