Six Months

Time does not stand still no matter how tired you are, in fact it seems to be going by even faster. Six months today we were suddenly a family of three. Rob and I were in our hospital room just staring in complete awe of the teeny little boy that we were blessed with, he smelled so amazing and was quite happy to be snuggled up close to either of us for the next three days we were there.
Well, fast forward six short but long months and our boy has grown a lot, has a wide selection of smells and luckily still loves to snuggle up with us.

Teething sucks! 

This past month feels like it was all about the teething. It lasted for a week, or was that two, I don't really remember much other than there was a lot of cuddling throughout the night, fussy days and anything frozen was a great treat to chew on. After all that he has one tooth that finally broke through last week and a second one not to far behind. We are more cautious now in offering our fingers to chew on!

Yes, that is a trail of drool pooling on the sofa

I guess the other big event has been the introduction of solid food. I had been giving him frozen food in the fantastic food sock to try and he has been really enjoying banana, mango, melon, avocado and peas. In the past week Owen has been given steamed carrot about the size of my pinky finger to chew on along with apple, avocado and chicken. Yes, a chunk of chicken and he loved that one the most! He is given pieces of food that are around pinky finger size so he can hold onto it and we let him do his thing. Most of the time he chews away, sometimes plays with it or sometimes just loses interest and drops it in favor of a toy. It's pretty exciting to watch and I will be sure to do more in depth posts on baby led weaning.

I love you.