6 months has just flown by! We've been so busy with Otto, going back to work, and everything else. I really mean to keep better track of everything and update this -- so Otto can read it some day.
Otto is such a ball of energy. He started crawling at five-and-a-half months, which the books all say is early, but not too unusual. Now that he's moving, he's pretty unstoppable.
I went back to work right before Otto's four-month birthday. The transition was made easier because Nathan's company started giving dads parental leave, so Nathan got to take ten whole weeks. Their Daddy-Otto time was such a blessing; they took lots of walks in the stroller to the local beer garden, trips to Home Depot, and did work in the garden together.
During my maternity leave, Otto and I spent lots of time going for very long walks. It was a little difficult, since he was a winter baby, but we made an effort to get out of the house every day. He spent lots of time all bundled up in his stroller.
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| Very bundled. (January 8) |
We had a huge snowstorm in January that shut everything down for a week. Lots of the side streets in our neighborhood didn't get plowed for five days. At the time, I really wished Otto was old enough to enjoy the snow, since all the neighborhood kids seemed to be having a great time. Lots of amazing snow forts, and we live near some great sledding hills. But I know there will be other blizzards for Otto to enjoy in the future.
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| Snow mountain in front of our house. |
Now that Nathan and I are both back to work, we found an in-home daycare that Otto absolutely loves. It's very close to home, and the ladies that work there are all smitten with him. He really loves spending time with new people -- he has no separation anxiety at all (fingers crossed that it stays that way).
Otto just got over his first serious cold. He was home from daycare for an entire week, and both Nathan and I got sick, too. On top of everything, the same weekend that Otto was his sickest, he cut his first tooth. We were very excited for him, but wow, did it make him grumpy. We've been trying baby-led weening with him (which is when babies eat adult food instead of purees), and he has already learned to use the tooth when he eats his vegetables!
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| And now we teeth on everything! (June 17) |
