This was a week of milestones!
On Sunday, Griffin got up on all fours and started rocking back and forth! He can certainly get around, although he isn’t doing an official crawl just yet. You can see in some photos that he often launches himself forward. Forgive the fuzziness, but I thought they captured his process pretty well!
Monday was Griffin’s 6 month well check with the pediatrician. He did really well, he had 2 shots and an oral vaccine – he was a trooper. He checked in at 15 pounds 5 ounces (11 percentile), 26 3/4 inches long (56 percentile) and 42.5 cm head circumference (25 percentile). For his 6 month photo I sat him up in front of the car – and he held there for about 45 seconds! Here is some video:
Tuesday was yet another milestone, for me! I lowered Griffin’s crib one notch! As you could see in the first photos in this post he is getting pretty mobile and is able to get himself into various positions. Kevin loves to stand Finn up in his crib, and Tricia does too! So, I thought, better safe than sorry as he will one day out of the blue likely pull himself up unexpectedly. Here is a photo from Tricia of Finn in his lowered diggs!
Wednesday night we went to Slice of Columbus, down at Columbus Commons downtown. It’s a nice fundraiser that benefits Nationwide Children’s Hospital – you purchase a ticket and then can sample pizza from over 20 local and chain pizza shops! Yummers! It was a beautiful fall night and Finn and I enjoyed going down to visit daddy for a few hours. And Wednesday night I lowered Finn’s crib! He loves to stand and he was pretty tall in his crib with the mattress at the newborn height. I figure it is only a matter of time (and not much) before he can pull himself up – so I lowered it one notch! Growing up fast!
Thursday I headed to Mansfield with Finn to visit with my parents. They were hosting some friends, Bob & Nancy, from North Carolina. I worked for them at their Hosta nursery in 1997 (or was it ’96?!). We had a fun time and Finn got lots of love – however, I forgot to take photos!
Saturday my parents came for a brief visit. Dad and Kevin watched part of the Buckeye game together while Finn was napping. My mom and I hung out and I was working on putting together the NPC Nursery schedule for the remainder of the year. We ended the evening with a lovely dinner with Kevin’s parents, brother Brett and his fiancée, Missy, downtown at Milestone 229. We were all able to celebrate Pat’s birthday. During dinner Griffin had his “first” restaurant high chair experience. He did really well, you can see we had to put the Skip Hop behind him so he didn’t fall backwards. He did great and loved being in it all by himself. His grandma also gave him a quick taste of the chocolate cake!
And here are some other shots of our week – all in all a busy and fun week!
On Friday, Finn was playing on the floor of his room and I was putting away some of his clothes. He was getting tired and was kind of fussy. Next thing I knew, I looked down and he had made his way to the car in his room, and was attempting to pull himself up – check it out, he has a bit of air here!