6 months old

Last Wednesday Josh had his 6 month visit. He weighed in at 19 lbs and is 28 inches long. Eating and sleeping are improving. Josh is now eating rice cereal, oatmeal, carrots, bananas, applesauce, sweet peas, sweet potatoes, and pears. Yum, yum! This weekend I made my first homemade baby food too. I ran out of the organic baby food I've been using and didn't want to go the grocery store so I looked in our freezer and sure enough, I had some peas. So I steamed them and pureed them in the blender. It was super easy. The only bad thing is that they say they will only last four days in the refridgerator. You're not supposed to re-freeze frozen items too. Oh well, he's having peas for the next four days. I think he'll be ok with that. He seems to enjoy them! Of course he will enjoy them along with fruit, cereal, and milk in case there's someone out there thinking I'm only going to feed him peas and going, oh my gosh! Don't worry.

This weekend Josh met Kirsten, one of my best friends from college. She came into town to shop for a cello bow and visit. She was great with Josh! She helped feed him, change him, bath him, and play with him. Thank you for all your help Kirsten. We had a great time!

Starting solids!

Two weeks ago we started Josh on solid foods. Although, they're not that solid as one might think from the name. Babies first foods are very liquid and pureed. We started with the classic rice cereal mixed with mommy's milk. We caught Josh's first bites on camera.

Hmmm... what's happening here?

Yeah- finally some more food!

That was yummy Mommy and Daddy. Thanks!

Back to School

This week I started back to work as a part-time teacher. At the moment I feel like I have the same amount of work, but half the time to get it done in. Though, it's the beginning of the school year thus busy, busy, busy. I'm thankful to be at the same school though and will be teaching 6th and 8th grade orchestra.

Josh is adjusting well. Monday was a tough day for him. He was very fussy I think because of teething pains- not fun! He's going to an in home daycare where Donna takes care of him and another boy named Holden. I'm so thankful for this situation!