6 months old

Oh My we're at half a year already and I become more in love and completely happy as he grows and learns new things. This month for us has been a big for our family because David has learned to do many new and exciting things.

 Such a sweet little smile!  This grin brings me so much joy. I'm blessed with a very content and happy baby.

 Doing a little sitting up on the couch.

 These next two pictures crack me up everytime I see them.  It's like he is says "come on mom" I've had enough.

But for you mom....just one more!

 He can now sit up on his own, although not for very long, so we sit close by as he continues to learn how to hold himself up. David continues to show interest in food and his tummy is handling it much better these days.  I thought about making my own baby food, because we want to keep him on an all natural and organic diet, but I figured I could go with the organic baby foods that are already out there and my life would be much easier. But finding a good selection of organic baby food can be hard.  My favorite brands are Happy Baby, Plum and Earths best but each company has there own problems, from my point of view anyway. Happy Baby and plum only offer blends of fruits and veggies.  They don't have just spinach, peas, green beans etc. The veggies are always mixed with a fruit, and at first I thought this was great but then I realized when he starts eating table food I wont be mixing veggies and Fruits for him at the dinner table. I want him to like the veggies by themselves first and not become dependent on that sweet taste of fruit being mixed in.  The Earth's Best brand is great but they don't offer a whole lot of variety of veggies.  So right now we're trying to figure it all out.  At this point he loves, squash, carrots, green beans and of course sweet potato's.  He's like his Papa and is not a fan of peas.  When it comes to fruit he sure doesn't turn that down.  Pears took some getting use to but he loves them now along with, mango's, bananas, apples, and prunes. 

Our other big achievement this month are those two bottom teeth that have popped up. He is handling teething well so far.  I've heard people make it sound like a horror story but he seems to be the same sweet happy baby we love!  He of course just chews on anything he can get his hands on! 

David was able to get 10 days of leave from work so we were able to go home and have a wonderful visit with our family, which was much needed.  I think the more distance between you and your family the closer it can make you if you let it.  Everyday David does something that I look around and want so badly to share it with my parents, my sister or  David's family but then I'm hit with the reality that it is just us and I'll have to try to share through a phone conversation (which just isn't the same). 
So going home gave us a chance to share with them all the joy David brings into our lives everyday.  We also were able to have some 6 month pictures take of him by Davey Morgan Photography! Which you can see here  http://daveymorgan.com/blog/?p=6898 .  David was cranky when it came time to take pictures but you would never know just by looking at the pictures Davey was able to get!  Thanks so much Davey :)