Happy 6 months Israel!!!

Dear Israel,
Wow. 6 months already. Craziness. You are a funny little guy. We still describe you as intense, fussy, particular, high maintenance, temperamental, frustrating, hilarious, happy, smiley. You adore your sister and will burst out laughing when she is telling stories. You always smile big smiles for her. You watch her every move and now try to take her toys. Just a few days ago you started doing a slow army crawl. You can scoot yourself across the room. You are also rolling everywhere.
You are finally sleeping longer stretches at night now. You will often sleep a 4-6 hour stretch at night. Some nights. Other nights you are still up every 3 hours or so. You still mostly only take 20-30 min cat naps during the day. You are difficult to get to sleep and only fall asleep nursing or being bounced/ rocked. Usually it takes at least 20 min to get you asleep for a 20 min nap. At nighttime its not unusual for me to have to nurse you for over an hour or to nurse you to sleep for 45 min, put you down and have you wake up 45 min later and I have to nurse you again for another 45 min. If you get over tired you fuss and cry like crazy before you finally settle down and sleep. We are still learning on what works to help you relax and unwind.
I have tried to leave you with your grandmother 3 or 4 times for 30-45 min at a time and you always end up getting so mad and worked up and always crying for mama. I can't leave with you anyone but daddy. You also won't drink from a sippy cup or bottle anymore.
You are still spitting up alot but not as much as when you were an infant and you finally stopped crying over gas pains.
No teeth yet but you chew on everything and you bottom 2 teeth look like they might make an appearance in the next month or so.
You are still tiny... already hanging out in the 10% in the weight charts. Your sister is also in the 10th% but she wasn't there this early. You are meeting all your milestones though so we try not to worry about it. You can almost sit without support but you would much rather crawl or roll around than sit still.
You are super curious and love to look at everything. You have a hard time nursing if there is any sort of anything going on... even just a conversation. At church I have to go in a quiet darker place to get you to eat you just fuss because you are hungry but you won't eat because there is too much to look at. We love watching you grow and watching your personality emerge.