Happy 1/2 birthday to this perfect little baby. 

RIYU! 

You are 6 months old today. 

How? I don’t know. I feel like you were just rolling around, doing somersaults in my belly last week. 

Time is flying by and you’re growing so much. 

Your little personality is shining these days. During those first few months, you let your Ishu Bhaiya have the spotlight, but nowadays you make yourself known. Whether that’s through your high-pitched screech or your insanely cute giggle, you let people know there is another human in the room. Your quiet, silent days are over. 🙂

Speaking of giggling…the person that makes you giggle the most is…yup. You guessed it. Your Ishu Bhaiya. You are absolutely, head-over-heels-in-love with your brother. Your eyeballs track him the minute he enters the room. Even when you and I are alone during the day, if I play a video with Ishu Bhaiya’s voice in it, you smile and look around the room, wondering when your brother is going to come tackle you with kisses. I’ve never seen anything like this before. You love him. He loves you. So much and so hard. I hope your bond will always remain this strong. (Ishu Bhaiya did say that he would still love you the most even if you pooped on him, so I think that this is real and true love, y’know?). 

We recently got you a Skip Hop activity center and it’s fun watching you throw yourself back and forth trying to find the perfect balance. And when you do, you stand tall and proud in your seat, looking around, making sure everyone sees all your tricks. But after a few minutes in it, you stare longingly at your playmat on the floor. You love being on that the most. (The blue elephant is your favorite thing to grab hold of. Your Ishu Bhaiya loved grabbing the purple monkey when he was your age!). 

Similar to Ishu Bhaiya, you can roll from back to belly, but then struggle to get back to your back. Your arm gets stuck. And then you drool all over while you’re attempting to wiggle your arm out. Until you finally call out for help. (Although Papa will argue that you can roll back to your back if we let you screech long enough).

You are able to sit up on your own for a few seconds but then come wobbling down and faceplant into the ground. Not your favorite thing for obvious reasons.

You love teething crackers and hummus and being included at the dinner table. Even though Mom is pushing off this solids business ’til as late as possible because who even wants to think about preparing food for one more mouth? But you don’t mind because mama’s dudu is your jam. You’ve got your milk on tap and you tap into it frequently. All night. All day if we’d let you.

You sat in the Costco cart for the first time this month.

Swung on the swing for the first time.

Took your first trip to the library and Children’s Museum.

Your favorite place to be is right smack dab in the middle of your family.

And we love having you right smack dab in the middle of us.

We love you so much. SO MUCH. And cannot imagine this family without you. You’ve made us complete and we feel so much gratitude for your baby squeals and giggles and beautiful smiles.

Happy six months to our baby boy!