In honor of our smallest family member turning 6 months, I pulled down the cooking books, cracked open some eggs and baked a cake! The little guy is sweet, smiling and babbling a lot, drooling, and ready to start eating solids (again!). He still refuses to sit, preferring instead to stand, hates tummy time, unless he's watching Mati's remote control Lightning McQueen zoom back and forth, and is finally getting the hang of turning from his back to his tummy (and then getting stuck and awfully frustrated).
Despite his desirable Michelin man looks, he is below the 50th percentile in terms of weight and close to the 100th percentile for height!! He's 72cm long and 7.260kg.
But all is not well. Santi has been battling a terrible flu these past two days. He has been throwing up a lot, hasn't been eating much, has a runny nose, watery eyes with yellow mucus coming out and has been just plain miserable. I took him to his doctor this morning and she was slightly concerned about the mucus in his lungs. So she prescribed an inhaler and warned that if I didn't give it him, he might have to be hospitalized! YIKES!! Hopefully he'll get better in a couple of days so I can start him on solids again (our first attempt abruptly came to an end when I changed pediatricians and she told me it was better to wait) and he can start enjoying real food.
Enjoy the pics - I'll post one of sick Santi tomorrow (too lazy to do it now - terrible ... I know).
"You guys are so cruel ... making me pose in front of my cake when I can't even have a slice of it!"
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