Happy 6 Month Birthday!

Can you believe Tigger is 6 months old?!?!?! Papa Tigger and I can't believe it. Our little boy is half way to being a year old!!

We celebrated his birthday with a trip to the doctor and two vaccinations. His key stats are:

• 15 lb, 6.5 oz (10-25% percentile)
• 27 inches long (75% percentile)
• 16 1/4 inches head circumference (5% percentile)

He's obviously long and lean like his daddy! The doctor is not concerned with how small his head is - his head has always been small and is growing along a good trajectory.

And finally, here are some comparison pics of Tigger. At birth:


And yesterday, at 6 months old:

His first day home, at about 6 days old:

And yesterday, at 6 months old:

Good Eyes continue

Another outing on Friday (it was a busy day!) was a visit to the pediatric opthamologist for a follow up visit. As you may recall, Tigger had his first evaluation a few months ago. Given Papa Tigger's eye problems, we take Tigger for checkups regularly so we can catch any problems. The good news is that all is still well! His eyes look totally normal and we'll follow up in 4 months for another checkup.

The pic below has nothing to do with Tigger's eyes (though I was protecting them with his sunglasses), but it was cute nonetheless. Here's me and Tigger heading to the post office yesterday to mail some pics to the family. He loved the walk!

6 Month Pics!

Mama Tigger and I decided to get some "professional" pics done of Tigger for his 6 month birthday. It was an interesting experience. As happy-go-lucky as he is, getting him to be "cute" within the 30-minute window of our sitting was a challenge. Mama Tigger and I were worn out through the process...

Here is a video of us, about 15 minutes in to the charade. Mama Tigger and I took turns taking lead. Given Mama Tigger's lamentations over not being in enough photos or video (see the note after case #1), I graciously let her be the star of this one:



Next time, I think we will just hire G-Pa T, Uncle Michael or Pseudo-Uncle Ptolemy...

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Apes

Tigger likes apes. Or, rather, he likes it when dad talks to him like an ape.

Case #1:



Note: I did TRY to get Mama Tigger on camera more with this one, but she took the camera from me. She is about to strike because she isn't getting enough camera time, still or video. Negotiators are working on the issue and hope to come to a resolution soon.

And #2:



As you can see, I kind of lost the "apeness" due to his cuteness. Sorry.

Tigger gets a High Chair

As you all know, Tigger started solids recently. Papa Tigger and I have been looking for a high chair, and finally settled on the Boon Flair. It was really hard to find a modern, stylish high chair that we liked - this was really the only one we could find!

Papa Tigger put it together and I took some pictures of Tigger's dinner last night. You might notice the lack of straps on the high chair. I was washing them and they were still in the washing machine when it was time for Tigger's dinner. Rest assured that the straps are on now and we do use them.

If you're curious, he was eating rice cereal mixed with sweet potatoes. He's had rice cereal, oatmeal, butternut squash, sweet potatoes and bananas.

Fun with his Hands

Tigger is having fun with his hands! I took this first video because he looked so cute when I shook his rattle:



Then, he was staring at his hands (he's been doing that a lot lately) and I got that too. It's a little dark - I was trying to calm him down so he'd take a nap.

Feet Art!

Tigger did his first art project!
The daycare folks painted his feet and made footprints on the heart for v-day (you can see is name in the lower right-hand corner). So cute!

Father & Son

Tigger and I have had a few father / son moments in recent weeks that I thought I would share. The first was us sharing a beer as we watched the Steelers kick the Cards' butt:
Ok, so he got a "different" bottle, but...

The second was the annual Washington car show. He was enthralled:
Ok, so he only slept through about half of it...

More laughing

Tigger was in a good mood today after we picked him up from daycare and I got this....



As you can all probably tell from the posts, Papa Tigger is the entertainer in the family. I've the videographer.

Happy Monday

We just picked up Tigger from daycare and he was in a good mood. Papa Tigger had him laughing, so I grabbed the flip. Of course, he didn't laugh as much, but we got a little bit of laughing.....