Nathan@6.5mths

Time really flies, and my little boy has since grown from birth weight 2.5kg more than 6 months ago, to a good 8.7kg!! This also means more demands on my arm and back muscles, God help!

He is able to toss and turn quite well, flipping over from front to back and vice versa. Sitting up supported, else he would roll over from side to side, rather cute. Perhaps he's a roly poly, that's why he's not very active yet, can't wait to see him start crawling on fours, must be quite a sight too.

Been on a cereal, porridge, sweet potatoe, pumpkin, avocado and banana diet past week. Just tried him on papaya today, followed by more greens like brocoli, peas and apple juice. Last week, he was constipated for 4 days, resulted from not drinking enough water, starting on solids, breast milk wouldn't be enough to help him digest the food. Hopefully, with more greens, it'll help. So we got ourselves a juicer, to make fresh fruit juice for the family, towards a healthier life style, dad's got high cholestrol, you see.

Sleeping about 4-6 hours during the daytime, unfortunately, still not sleeping through the night, wakes at least once. Last night, horror of horrors, woke up at 4.30a.m. and refused to go back to sleep. Dad took turn to rock him for an hour, and finally decided to let him cry for a good 10mins before he fell back to snoozing land.

It's been fun at moms n babes fellowship every thursday afternoon, made some new mommie friends, like Sharon, she's chatty and friendly, got two lovely boys. Nathan's not very participative yet, and immobile, so can't make any friends, but older kids do crowd around him to hug and kiss him sometimes.