The Carlos Family: Happy 6 Month Birthday to our Little Man!

Easton is 6 months big! He continues to be the unexpected miracle we are so thankful for. God's plan for sweet little Easton James to be ours was definitely a surprise, but thank God for His plan because it was and is PERFECT! This has been a busy month for Easton full of developmental changes. Here's his news...

Easton is a rolling machine. He rolls every direction, all over the place. Placing him on a nice clean blanket with some toys is now officially a thing of the past as he always travels clear across the room often running into walls or pieces of furniture which frustrates him and makes Mommy quite nervous!
He is making a plethora of sounds (Mommy is working heavily on "mama!"). His infamous growl is still our favorite sound of his and in the past few days he has started a high pitched squeal. It almost sounds like he's going to cry, but ends up being a series of high pitched "happy" sounds!
Easton started solid food about one week before his 6 month birthday. I'm so happy that I chose to wait until 6 months with both Clayton and Chloe and Easton because my babies were ready to eat solids at that point. The first dinner of organic whole wheat oatmeal was funny. Easton's faces were hysterical especially since all he has known is his "mommy's milk." The second day, though, Easton was opening his mouth for the spoon! After about 3 days of cereal, we introduced carrots and avocado. I'm making all of his food like I did for the babes. I really don't think it's a whole lot cheaper, but for me it just makes the most sense. He loves carrots, avocado, zucchini and yams! Easton dives his face into the spoon and eats about 2 ounce servings...one hungry boy! He's having lunch and dinner right now and will start breakfast next week. There's a lot of opinions about the value of infant cereals, which typically I serve for breakfast mixed with some fruit. I'm not sure what I'll be doing now; Mommy's got to research some more!
Now that Easton is sitting in a high chair, we are giving him a sippy cup with water. He actually takes about a sip or two out of it and then throws it, but he's getting it. I need to go to Babies R Us and get him the Tommee Tippee sippy cups. He's been a stinker with bottles and those did the trick, so maybe TT sippy cups will prevail too!
Easton busted out of his 6 month jammies and onesies and is now in 9 month apparel. He is just getting so big. I am having a tough time with this. He's such a good baby; I just want to bottle him up!
He takes a paci (thank the Lord Jesus!).
He went through a roller coaster with his sleeping the past 2 months due to a cold and then reaction to a vaccine or roseola. The doctor now thinks Easton had roseola; I'm still on the fence because the irony of the fever starting 4 hours after the vaccine is just too perfect. Now, though, Easton goes to sleep at 7 (he dropped his third nap, but barely makes it to 7 now). Dinner time is definitely difficult with his new schedule as Easton needs to eat, be bathed, nursed, and put to bed in that hour as well. Manageable when Ryan is home; super hard when he's working. I wake Easton at 9:30 to feed him once more. He typically starts stirring about 4 hours later. I just help him get to either his tummy or back, put his paci in, give him his blankie, turn on his soother, and don't hear from him again until between 5 and 7.
Easton loves his blankies! He was a swaddled baby and while isn't swaddled any more, his security item is his blanket. It doesn't matter what blanket at this point, but he loves to hold the blankie close to his face and often gets himself all wrapped up in his Aiden and Anais blankets.
He likes to play in his exersaucer; is growing less fond of the beloved swing; is aware of Roxi; loves to touch and pull everything especially Mommy and Chloe's hair; loves when Daddy tickles his hands with his stubbly beard; likes attention from his brother and sissy; and still keeps his eyes locked on his mommy at all times!
Easton can sit, but is still pretty wobbly, so you can't leave him unattended. He's also starting to work on crawling, but has a ways to go!
He is 26 1/4 inches tall (47%--jumped 25% since his 4 month check) and 17 pounds 13 ounces. Easton and Clayton nearly have the same stats; Clayton was just 1/4 inch taller. They are definitely brothers!