Six Months Old!

He's traveled to Florida and Pittsburgh, and now halfway around the sun. On Saturday night he turned 6 months old. Today we took him in for his 6-month checkup and shots. We called a vaccination audible, and got him the seasonal flu and swine flu (apparently the last one the clinic had) shots instead of the 3rd and final d-tap shot that he was scheduled to get. His status as a 0.5-year-old qualified him for the shots, just in time for the flu season and daycare. We reasoned that he's very likely to be exposed to one or both flus (flues?) at daycare, and he's already had 2 of the 3 d-tap shots. He'll need to get 2nd shots for both flu vaccines.

He's sick (again). Runny nose and snorty and cranky and he's been tugging at his ears and not sleeping well. The doctor checked his ears and he has an ear infection, so he's going on antibiotics. I used to get terrible ear infections when I was a kid; hopefully Spud will be spared their full fury. I felt like I had firecrackers in my head.

Six month stats:

weight: 18 lbs. 1 oz. (50%)
height: 27.75 in. (95%)



We took him out to his first pumpkin patch yesterday. He had absolutely no clue what's going on, of course, but he seemed impressed by all of the bright colors (well, orange anyway) and energetic older kids. He'll be more excited about it next year, I bet. I can't wait for him to get a bit older and watch him get excited about the holidays.