Half!

Today is Kirk's Half Birthday. He is 6 months old. One half. Zero point five. I can't believe he's already half. But I'm not sure if that's because the time has gone slowly or quickly. Probably a combination of the two. Still, it's a pretty awesome milestone.

Kirk decided to celebrate a bit early yesterday by doing his first proto-crawling. He was in the middle of hating on some Tummy Time when he lifted up his butt, got up on his knees, and scooted forward! Then he did it again! The third and final try he went backwards instead of forwards. But Mr. b and I were still dutifully impressed. And a bit freaked out. We need to make damn sure everything is childproofed right now. Mr. b did a major furniture rearrangement when he brought the Saturnalia tree in the house. By default, that removed a lot of non-child-safe action figures and other small items from the vicinity. Now we need to take care of stray cords, cables, and plugs. And keep the floor a helluva lot cleaner than what we've settled on up until now. And change out all the pulls on the kitchen cabinets like we've wanted to do since we bought the house. And reattach the door to the top of the stairs. Who knows what else that we just haven't noticed yet. Yes, Johnson & Johnson, you're right; having a baby does change everything.