6-month stats

We had Elliot's six-month "well-baby" check-up yesterday. The stats:

Height: 27.75 inches (84 percentile)
Weight: 17 lbs. 2.1 ounces (35 percentile)
Head: 45.8 cm. (92 percentile)

What this means is that we have a tall, thin baby with an oversized head. Actually, his numbers are all in a good range and we figure the head size is just to contain the massive brains he clearly possesses. The only number that really surprised us was his weight because to me he's a little chunk, but I guess most babies are even more so!

Anyway, he's doing really well on his milestones--he's babbling and getting better at sitting up without help (still shaky) and he's so close to crawling that I bet that's coming in the next few weeks. He can't quite get his little round tummy up off the floor so for now he rolls or creeps to get where he wants to go. This weekend is going to be filled with baby-proofing. Thank God dust bunnies are mostly non-toxic.

In other news, we're still sick. Brendan's got the worst of it, and I thought Elliot was getting over it, but he's been cranky and stuffy all day so far. Maybe it's just from the shots he got yesterday or maybe the cold is still hanging on. We are doing a spaced schedule with his vaccinations, meaning that he gets almost all the standard vaccines but instead of getting them every other month, he gets half the amount every month. It means a few more shots overall and more appointments, but we decided that was preferable to getting all that stuff into his system at once.

Oh, and one more thing! It seems that he can recognize his name now, but it also seems that he thinks his name is Peanut. If we say, "Hi, Elliot!" he'll continue doing whatever he was doing, but if we say, "Hi, Peanut!" he'll look at us. Guess we should've seen this coming, but we've called him Peanut ever since we found out I was pregnant.