- Hi everyone.
Welcome back to my channel.
Today I'm filming Jackson's six month update.
I should also mention that I have had hair extensions
so if you're wondering why my hair looks longer
and fuller that would be why.
I just can't believe that this little guy
has been with us for six months.
That is half a year and it's gone so, so fast.
I know I keep saying it, but it just goes so quick.
Like take too many photos, enjoy every second.
It just goes so quick.
I think he wants to feed.
Yeah.
So the biggest update and change
since Jackson's five month update has been the fact
that he is now eating solid food.
We started weaning him at about five and a half-months-old.
I waited as long as I possibly could.
I really wanted to get to six months.
(baby sneezes) But, bless you.
(baby sneezes) Oh bless you.
Bless you.
It just got to the point where it was silly.
He will be sat at the table with us crying
because we were eating.
He would be grabbing food off of our plates
and just desperate to eat, so we gave in.
We're doing a mixture of baby-led weaning
and purees as well.
And it's really working for us.
I know that's not for everyone.
But I love baby-led weaning, especially as a third baby.
It is so easy for me to just like cut up an avocado
or some sweet potato, like roast it,
and just give to him on his tray while the other boys eat
rather than have to sit there spoon feeding him.
So it's actually really convenient.
It is very messy but he loves it.
It seems like he loves touching new textures
and finding out new things.
So he's really enjoying baby-led weaning.
But then I do sometimes give purees to him
and he does use a spoon with plain yogurt
and stuff like that.
But he's loving his food
and if you wanna see some weaning videos,
I will link two down below that I recently did.
Jackson is definitely getting better at sitting up.
Now as well he's really good sitting up in his high chair
and we've also just put the big boy seat on his buggy
rather than the carry cot.
So he will happily sit in that
and when I go for a walk he will sit and look around
and he sat upright the whole time.
He's also using the back support now that is like a seat
and he sits up really well in all of those things
but when I try to sit him up unaided,
he does keep falling forward.
I'll show you what I mean.
That's what I mean.
Part of me thinks he throws himself forward
because he loves being on his front so much.
He's rolling back to front.
You can see he's literally just rolled over then.
And if I leave him on his play mat, on his front,
or he'll roll onto his front, and he will wriggle back.
So he can actually crawl almost backwards.
Like, not crawl but, like, push himself backwards
so he will get off of his play mat
and be in the middle of the kitchen
if I leave him on the play mat to go to the loo.
Jackson wears six to nine month clothing.
He is really long, he always has been.
And because I like to put him in baby grows,
we had to up him in size at about five months old.
Also, I haven't had him weighed
because he is the third child
so I don't know what he weighs
but I know he is getting very big.
Sometimes when I lift him I don't feel like he weighs
that much different to my three year old.
I know he probably does
but he just feels like a really solid guy.
Another big developmental thing
that we've been dealing with for the past month is teething.
He has been teething nonstop.
He drools, he gets all this part of him wet.
We're still using the bandana bibs to cope with that.
Yes, so he has been nonstop teething
but it hasn't been for nothing.
We have two teeth now.
So something was definitely coming.
And I've mentioned these products before that I use,
I just use Teetha powder and Anbesol
on his gums if he's really sore.
All right I've just put Jackson into his activity center
because as you can see,
he doesn't want to be held all the time.
He wants to be down and playing.
I actually did a video recently which I will link down below
which are baby essentials
from the age of three months to six months and in that
I talk about all of the toys that he's been loving.
Yeah.
He loves his Jumperoo, he loves standing up.
He loves his play mat.
And I actually just got this really cool
new play mat for him.
It's monochrome but I think you can get it in other colors.
It's like a foam but it has a little bit of grip on it.
So they can sit on it and if they fell back,
they wouldn't, kind of hurt their head.
But also it's got a little bit of grip,
so when they start crawling, it will help them with that.
And I had one like this for my other children
so I've got him one now.
Sorry, he keeps shouting and screaming and laughing.
He is like always talking away and laughing loads.
He's such a happy baby and I do talk to him.
I do say like da da, ma ma, ba ba to try
and encourage him to say it back.
Who's copying you?
In terms of sleep, Jackson is sleeping in his big boy cot
in his room and he is also sleeping in a Grobag.
So which basically, a baby sleeping bag,
because he was getting the blankets off of him
just by rolling around.
He has been sleeping quite well in the night
but his teeth definitely interfered with his sleep patterns.
He was up and you could almost tell it was pain.
And one night he actually did get quite hot
and he wasn't that ill, so I can't help but think
it was to do with his teeth.
He has been a bit more clinging
and maybe had a little bit of stranger anxiety,
not badly or anything.
But about a month or two ago,
I could hand him to absolutely anyone
and be like I just need to go to the loo,
or do you mind just having him, I'm just gonna do this
or whatever and he wouldn't ever mind.
But now I feel like he knows it's not me.
If Matt or someone else has him for me for a while,
if I'm trying to edit a blog or get some work done,
like an hour or two, sometimes I can hear him get upset
and nothing's kind of helping.
Like no food or anything is like working,
but then if I have a cuddle with him,
like, that kind of, like, settles him
so I think we're coming into this clingy stage.
It's not bad at all yet, and I think with my older boys,
it was at its' worse at like 10 months.
So we'll just have to see how that goes,
but he is literally like my little shadow.
Anything I do, anywhere I go he is with me
and I have him like on my hip.
So although he has socialized and been to baby groups,
he probably has been less than his older brothers
because I have so much going on.
The only other thing I've noticed this month
is that his eyesight is really, really good.
He can see so far, even if I'm in the garden
and he's in another room, I feel like he can see me
and he gets excited.
Yep, but he is still our perfect little dream baby.
He is such a good boy.
He's so happy and cuddly and content all of the time.
He's the type of baby you can just take anywhere with you,
if you have a hair appointment, a dentist, or whatever,
he is pretty happy to just chill and sit there with you.
He is such a good boy
and he's still got his big blue eyes
that everyone comments on.
Thank you so much for watching.
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And I will see you soon.
Bye.
Is it nap time?
You cutie cutie.