6 Months Old and Wiser Too!

It's official, Brycen has lived for half a year now and has had more adventures in those 6 months then some people have in their entire lifetime. Brycen went on his first airplane ride when he was 5 weeks old and has been on 4 more plane rides since then and will be on 5 more in the next two months. He has also traveled across the United States (by car) several times, amounting to roughly 150 hours in his car seat (which is why he hates car rides!), and visiting 20 of the 50 States!

At Niagara Falls..

In the Sacred Grove, Palmyra, NY

Hershey Park, PA

D.C.

Where they make all the money.."How tall are you in money?" Brycen is worth $2 million!

Williamsburg, VA

Soo much time in the car! Brycen is contemplating what to do. He did amazing in the car from New York to Massachusetts, from MA to Virginia, from VA to Utah, from UT to Arizona--what a trooper! And then...he decided enough was enough and has hated any car rides since!

Omaha, Nebraska Zoo

Other than all his travels..he has visited the ER twice already, once for a CT scan because he was in his first car accident when he was 6 weeks old and another for a second degree burn.

Here's are a few more updates about the little man behind the big grin:

He is officially 29.5 inches tall, weighs 22 pounds, his head is 47.5 cm big (all in the 97%--he's slowing down! No longer in the 100%) and has grown out of his infant car seat and is now sitting in a big boy chair that makes riding in the car with him a bit more bearable. He enjoys the new seat because he is able to sit up and look out the window.

He has his first four teeth with two more on the way that will probably make their appearance in the next week or so.

Three of them can be seen here...

As a result, he has become our little shark and likes to not only stick everything in his mouth but likes to bite on everything in the process. He has discovered the hard way, that biting his pink piggies (his toes) is not nearly as fun as biting blankets, pieces of clothing, mom and dad...

We have also started to brush Brycen's teeth and boy, does he enjoy it! We hope that continues...for forever. The downside--his brush is on a rubber finger that fits the adult finger and makes brushing Brycen's teeth very easy but the rubber has proven to not provide much protection from those lovely pearly whites and can really be finger suicide if the brusher is not careful.

Brycen has also successfully used his teeth to eat his first cheerio and loves to actually use the chewing motion that he has watched and mimicked the parentals doing for the last few months.

Brycen has proven to have amazing hand/eye coordination and loves to "clear" off the counter when Mommy puts him in his Bumbo while she does the dishes. His favorite game is to repeatedly drop all his toys off the counter and watch Mommy pick them up for him. His hand/eye coordination has also resulted in the cat missing a chunk of her hair. haha.

This is his mischievous face...caught attempting to "clear" off his night stand which entails knocking the alarm clock off for the fiftieth time!

Like before, Brycen wants to hold everything Mommy is holding but he has learned that Mommy has long arms and can hold the things away out of his reach; so what does he do? He gave up on trying to reach the thing Mommy is holding..he instead, pulls on Mommy's arms and tries to "assist" in every way possible..making it near impossible to... read a recipe...accurately pour a liquid...attempt to drink something..etc. Brycen is so good at what he does, he now successfully shares a sip of Mommy's drink EVERY time she picks up her glass.

Brycen has also started to repeat sounds back to us; Bryce was singing a song the other day and Brycen repeated the tune back to him using his own language...which we must say, he has become quite fluent in lately and will gladly talk your ear off night or day.

This is what Mommy wakes up to the in the morning (complete with the grunting noises and all :)..

He was supposed to be going down for a nap but tried to convince me that it wasn't a good idea..

Despite everything, Brycen is always a joy and we absolutely love watching him grow and learn

Proudly sitting on Dad's bike..

Gotta love that smile..

and even though he almost the size of a two year old...he will always be our baby.