Six months old and lots of Firsts

I swear I tried my hardest not to blink and here we are a whole half a year has already flew by. This month has been full of lots of new discoveries and firsts. Not all of them have been good ones. We had our first fever and I seriously didn't handle it well at all I am not sure if it was the trauma of going through IVF or what but I could have sworn my poor little boy was getting very sick and that something terrible was happening. Thank goodness it was not I was just being a scared first time mom but that feeling of helplessness was something strong. Poor guy was teething im pretty sure because it lasted just one long horrible day and that was that. I took that boys temperature probably at least fifty times poor guy but I was terrified. Then not only two days later he got his first cold thank goodness for the nose frida I love that thing him not so much! So that is where we are now we have all had the sniffles and coughs but things are getting better so cant complain. The sixth month has brought on a whole new exciting world with Aiden. He has been making leaps and bounds in his development. He is still very much loving his solids he gets them twice usually a day with a snack thrown in sometimes. He has tried all sorts of foods at this point we were mostly giving him pureed food that I would make but now that he is six months old we are giving him one meal whole so he can get the hang of feeding himself. He picked up on it very quick it is hilarious I dont know if its the way it feels in his fingers or what but he will be so freaked out at first every time we give him something he pokes it and gags a little bit its the cutest. The boy has found his voice and instead of babbling like he used to he SCREAMS for everything all day long just yelling and screaming its been a bit hard to handle my poor ears need some plugs im afraid the neighbors think we are beating the poor guy but he is happy the whole time just likes to scream to get his point across. We moved him into his own room and it was really rough at first I mean he still wakes up a lot at night but adding that to me watching the monitor while he was asleep about wore me out I was very very tired for that first week. Its been about three weeks now and I have gotten better he still wakes up about three times a night but at least I can finally sleep again while he is. I cant wait for him to sleep more I am not sure what it is but he has never ever been a good sleeper and now at six months of this im finally getting worn out from it I have tried letting him cry a little to see if he will settle himself and nooo he sure wont he will just scream louder and louder until he is breathing funny and I just cant deal with that but I do hope soon he gets it and will sleep at night better. The slobber has came back full force and im positive we will see a tooth any day now pop through. I think the funnest new thing happening right now is that we have a crawler this kid can get around now and it is the cutest thing he goes all over but he is not so sure of the tile where its carpeted he will get right to the end where the tile starts and slaps his little hands on it then turns around I wouldn't want to crawl on that hard surface either! He has been sitting by himself now for a couple weeks and it makes him look like such a big boy. He is very smart and I feel like he is already able to understand somewhat is going on around him. We have his six month check up today and I am excited to see how much he has grown my sore back can tell you already that its a lot. As for me and my husband we have a made a huge life changing decision we have put our home up for sell and are going to be moving out of state!! The house listed on Tuesday and we went under contract that same day it went so fast it was crazy! I am excited to get out of Utah and go to the pretty state of Oregon. The biggest reason for doing this is to raise our boy somewhere better the people here are not so nice and there is just not a whole lot to do for kids. The schools in Oregon are some of the best in the country and its beautiful and full of good nice people. We cant wait to get out there and start our new life lots of adventures await us!! We are still cloth diapering and breastfeeding solids have not changed any feeds at all if anything this boy eats more now then ever!