Brenden is 6 months old already! In the last month he’s been to two 1st birthday parties and on a road trip to Austin. Yesterday he went to the doctor for his 6 month checkup where he got his 4 shots and a flu shot! He is now 27 1/2 inches (82%) and 18 lbs 10.8 oz (69%). The doctor called him a big healthy boy!

He is on the verge of crawling, he’s already up on his hands and knees, and sitting up on his own. He is so close to getting it all down that he has become rather obsessed with it and wiggles to get down on the ground every chance  he gets.

Some friends of ours from NJ got married in Austin last weekend, and I might add that it was probably the most perfect wedding I’ve ever been to, so we took a nice car ride there. My Mom had told me early on that changing the water you use to make bottles is not good for the baby’s tummy, so I always carried a bottle of McKinney water to use. I forgot to pack enough for the whole weekend though, and we paid for that the first night of our trip! Brenden woke up screaming every two hours, which he hasn’t done since sometime in his first month. But it all worked out and we had a nice trip despite both Patrick and I being sick. Somehow, Brenden has managed to ward off the cold germs that have been floating around our house for the last two weeks.

We went to a halloween party/meeting for Hands Down (the support group at Scottish Rite) where the kids dressed up (sorry Patrick, I was wrong about that whole, “Adults dress up too” thing, much to both our embarrassment!) so we got Brenden a costume. I should have bought it earlier so that he could be a little monkey like  I wanted him to be, but that costume was sold out so we went with a pumpkin instead. We dressed him up again to answer the door on halloween night too, and he was so cute! (The last pict. is Brenden on the way home from Austin. He was concentrating pretty hard on his toy!)