Luke turned six months old yesterday. That's half a year, for those who are interested. Half. A. Year. Remember how I was all oh-my-baby-is-growing-so-fast-where-has-the-time-gone when he was a month old? Take that, multiply it by, oh, THREE HUNDRED AND TWELVE, and you might have some idea of where I am right now.
It seems like he does something new every day. He can sit up by himself. (Okay,
most of the time he can sit up by himself. But then one of the animals walks by or we go on a
play date and he sees other babies and he gets distracted and falls over. Hence the many, many bumps on his head.) He wants desperately to crawl. The problem is that he spends all his energy getting up on his knees and his head flops onto the ground because apparently? You can only concentrate on holding up one body part at a time. (On the plus side, he
has mastered the downward dog pose.) Oddly enough, he can get from one end of the bed to the other with this odd flip-floppy crawling, which means that any day now, you're going to see a post about how he fell off the bed. (I know it's coming. I'm doing everything I can to stop it from coming, but I think every single child has a falling-off-the-bed story.)
I had planned to wait until he turned 6 months to start feeding him baby food, but as with everything else, he had his own ideas on the matter and at 5 months, he decided that he wanted a change. To that end, he started helping himself to things off
McMoose's and my plates: hummus, ketchup, fruit, and in one memorable occasion that involved a face first dive into my plate, a piece of quiche. So. We started feeding him. He hates bananas, but loves apples and sweet potatoes and (go figure)
avocados. And in keeping with this whole growing up business, he has decided that he's big, so he no longer has any use for a bottle, but is happy to drink from
sippy cups, straws, and shot glasses. (You'd be surprised by how well shot glasses work as baby cups...)
I know that this is the point in the post where I usually post pictures, but in case you haven't noticed, I'm seriously slacking lately, so stay tuned and the pictures will come later this week.