Starting on Solid Foods

Miles recently turned 6 months old (on May 29th)! Wow, half a year! He is 21 1/2 lbs according to the bathroom scale which means he will be graduating to a bigger car seat really soon. I am currently lamenting the soon-to-be loss of freedom. The infant car seat made it so easy to carry him in and out of stores, restaurants, etc. without having to wake him up, put on a jacket, shade his eyes from the sun... The big-boy car seat will not be so easy. Sigh...

6 months of age means that we are also starting Miles on "solid" foods. We took some videos, of course!

First, we tried rice cereal. Miles wasn't sure at first, but now LOVES his rice cereal. He's eating it like a pro. His first few bites were a bit tentative...



A week later, we tried peas for the first time. We are taking the philosophy of veggies before fruits. We'll see how it works. Miles definitely didn't take to eating his peas as quickly as eating his rice cereal. Uncle Jason, Aunt Jill, Gramma Sue and Papa Dean were all there to witness the first bites of peas...



And the final video of this post shows just how ingenious little ones can be. Miles was sitting on Papa Dean's lap after dinner one night and started vocalizing as normal... "ahhhhhhhh". But then Papa would bounce his leg and the noise would change... "ah-ah-ah-ah-ah". Miles thought this was great fun and kept doing it, over and over and over...

Miles Videos!

Miles is grow-grow-growing! He had an infected ingrown toenail a few weeks back (right around 5 months old) and at the Dr. office he weighed 19 lb 13 oz, which is about 1 1/2 lbs heavier than at 4 months! Oh, and his ingrown toenail is all better now. He now sits up all by himself (we're just there to catch him when he inevitably throws himself backwards), giggles when he thinks something is funny, rolls from front to back consistently and talks up a storm. In fact, he ended up hoarse for a few days because of all the happy-screamy- noises he makes. Here are some videos of his current shenanigans...

Miles rolling over...



Giggly Miles...



The start of Miles' pianist career...