So many things have happened since turning 6 months! It has definitely been a month of firsts for our little guy.

TEETHING: Yes, Porter has not one but two teeth that have come in. The first one started with the symptoms of a cold. Everything you read online about doctors saying a fever, diaper rash, and cold have nothing to do with teething was completely inaccurate for this guy. The cold lead to a small fever that came soon after the day we got his 6 month shots. This lead to his first diaper rash. A bib was a must for all times or else we would be changing his shirt constantly. Anything Porter could get his hands on was in his mouth as a chew toy, including the dogs bones...gross I know! Eventually the bottom right came in first and now he has both bottom teeth that he can smile brightly with.

EATING: We have changed Porters schedule which I will get to later, but this has allowed him to eat two times a day. Once for fruits and once for vegetables, we were told to do cereal in there too, but he just does not like it. His current favorites are sweet potatoes, apples, and bananas. I have been making the baby food in the brezza which is amazing. I actually made a combo food that is both sweet potatoes and bananas and he loves it! We also started to baby puffs and he really just likes playing with them.

SCHEDULE: Porter continued to wake up at 6am which is great but we would fall into I'm not being interested in his bottle at 8. So we decided to change his schedule to 6, 9, 12, 3, 6, 8 then to bed. He takes a nap from around 10:30 to 12 and we feed him his baby food at the noon and 6 feeding, then nap from 3 to 4ish. This has really worked well especially with the day light savings because before we were putting him to bed at 7:30 and it was still daylight out.

MOVEMENT: Porter wants no part in tummy time which has lead to no interest in crawling. (He has been sleeping on his stomach though. Weird I know!) Although we said he would walk before crawling and he pulled himself up in the crib. Now that is all he wants to do is stand and walk around his little play table. He can almost move all the way around it with no help from anyone else!

February 14, 2013 half a year old. Started solid foods first with cereal but he really showed no interest in that. He said mommy give me the good stuff! We first started with sweet potatoes which he loved then carrots, pears, squash and green beans at which he does not like very much.
Reaching for toys has become a game for Porter. If you place them in front of him he will rock back and forth and then lean forward and grab his toys. He will raise up on all fours but not yet crawling. Very soon....probably too soon. He is great at standing at his play table with little assistance we still think he will be walking before crawling. Porter had his first word and of course it was Dadadadada.....:0) he loves his daddy!

I love to make my room inviting and these past two years my theme has been "sports science". I use the jerseys to identify the table names as colors. This is a part of my classroom management. I use the tables to give positive and negatives points. At the end of each class the students keep track of their score and place it on the room score board. The team at the and of he week gets a small prize and the team at the end of the semester gets a larger prize.
Here are some updated pics:

Four and a half months was the perfect time...Porter just started sitting up and we were able to get the "famous" sitting in front of the tree picture. He was so excited to see all of the lights and presents. People were happy to see him open up presents because he actually would open up the presents...even though it would take a half an hour to open each present the time was precious.
RSV hit our house the day before winter break for mommy and with Porter projectile vomiting and running a fever of 101 we took porter to urgent care at the new children's mercy. Both grandmas were there and worried about their little boy. Porter had to miss his first Gumm Christmas, but we were able to Skype with grandpa when dad got home. (Since the RSV he has slept through the night once)
Switching to all bottle feeding. With porter being sick it made it very difficult for him to feed and sleep. Both mommy and him were going on little sleep and the best way to feed him was with a bottle. On Christmas night after feeding all night where we feed, fall asleep, feed, fall asleep....this was not a good pattern. We tried side lying to see if he would do that so mommy could get some sleep too and he would just cry. (He also had begun biting during this time.) After one last time of a muncher on the boob and I was done! Bottles for Porter from now on.
Bottle feeding has been a lot harder at night because now not me and Drew have to get up. Me to pump and drew to feed. After about 2 weeks we have the pattern down but at first it was definitely an adjustment for drew to go from just changing him in the middle of the night to changing him, getting the bottle ready, and feeding him.
Porter had his first trip to the aquarium and Fritz' restaurant crown center with Auntie Ashlee, GiGi, Aunt Kathy, mom, and Chas. He truly is his daddy's son because he was amazed by all of the fish and aquatic life.
Porter rang in the new year at Grandma and Grandpa Schiebers house when he went to sleep at 8:00pm.

Started feeding every 3 hours start to start with 6oz bottles schedule is breastfeed when he first wakes up, (pump extra) feed bottle at 8, 11, 2, 5, breastfeed at 7:30ish put to bed and hopefully sleep through the night.
1st vacation to Branson:
Left work early on Friday and got out of town by 3 drove to Springfield and stopped for dinner.  Did great on the way there.  Saturday went shopping all day had both the bjorn and stroller and he did great with both.  Went to hotel and went to sleep at 8pm.  Woke up Sunday and drove home after breakfast at hard luck diner.  Slept the entire way home from Branson.

Note to self: pack and play is a must when traveling and remember to bring soap for baby because he became very stinky and sweaty from the car ride.