Happy Half-Birthday!

Dear Cooper,
Today you are 6 months old! I can't believe we're halfway to your birthday. I guess I should start thinking about birthday party themes...

You absolutely love your dad and your big brother. (I think you're pretty fond of me too..) If Garrett is around and doing anything the least bit entertaining, your eyes are glued on him and you're squealing and talking, trying hard to get his attention. When Daddy gets home in the evenings, you don't take your eyes off of him until he finally picks you up. If I'm holding you at this time (and I usually am), your body gets all tensed up as if to say "Pick me! Pick me!" And of course he always picks you up as soon as he can.

So, what are you up to at this 6 month mark?
*You're still practicing your sitting up skills. You sit up very well when propped, but with your attempts to pick up and play with toys all the time, if you sit up independently, you're not upright for long.
*You love your toys, especially the ones you can chew on or the ones that light up or make sounds.
*You hold your pacifier really well and can put it back in your own mouth. You even throw it sometimes. I've found several outside of your crib on the floor, and since you have a bumper pad in the crib, I know they didn't just fall out.
*You LOVE veggies. All veggies. It doesn't matter what vegetable it is, I can feed it to you and you will almost always eat the whole jar.
*You're learning to tolerate fruit. But you still haven't eaten more than half a jar at one sitting. And it has to be a mixed fruit, you don't want one solo fruit in the jar.
*I started giving you baby yogurt this week and you seem to like that well. Better than cereal anyway. You will eat about half of a cup and then you're done.
*You still love your sippy cup and have even tried giving yourself drinks from it.
*You're starting to notice some of Garrett's cartoons on the TV.
*You scoot backwards a lot now. I have to watch you when you're on the floor because you've ended up underneath the couch when I wasn't watching. (That's the negative to having hardwood floors, a scooting baby, and a couch that sits off the ground several inches.)
*Getting on your hands and knees is second nature for you now. You even do it in your crib when you're fighting sleep. You also rock back and forth when you're on them too, so I'm guessing crawling is in our near future.
*You sleep well at night, going to bed around 7:30 and waking up about 6:30 (then I bring you in my bed for half an hour because I just can't bring myself to get up at 6:30). Some nights you wake up during the night for one reason or another. Lately it's been because you're cold.
*You still don't take great naps and they're very inconsistent with how long you go. One morning, you'll sleep for an hour and a half, the next morning you only sleep for 30 minutes. This drives me slightly bonkers because I can't get anything done when you're napping! I never know how long you'll stay down, so of course on the days you sleep a long time, I end up getting nothing done because I think you're going to wake up any minute now.
*You don't have any teeth yet. I really thought you would have your first one now with all the drool, crankiness, chewing on things, etc. But nothing's there. I can feel a spot on your gums, but apparently we still have a ways to go.
*You went to the church nursery for the first time 2 Sundays ago. They said you did really well and all the ladies in there had Garrett when he was a baby, so they are excited to watch you now.

I'm really looking forward to your first Christmas next week! I hope you'll enjoy attempting to open presents, or at least eating the wrapping paper.