Everything is New

I really got to step up my blogging! We are T-minus 6 days until Elijah's 1st birthday. Lots of new stuff going on for the little one.

First off, he is walking like nobody's business and at times, he's almost running. It's crazy to me how fast he got the hang of it.

Secondly, he has decided that baby food is, in fact, for babies and he has no interest in it. This happened about a month ago and has been good but considerably more messy. We are very proud of his willingness to try things, sometimes taking every piece on his tray and putting it in his mouth and then taking it out again. Every piece of food on the tray gets put in his mouth, not all of it stays there. His favorites are cheese, carrotts(if they have cinnamin on them) and bananas and anything on Mom's and Dad's plate, even if it is the same thing on his plate.

He is also transitioning to the 1 year old room at "school". They have a little bit more structured class time than the baby room. He has been spending time with the "Teddy Bear" classroom and seems to be doing really well. He was there all day yesterday and boy was he tired when he got home. Playing with the big kids is hard work!

Next hurdle, daylight savings time. What a stupid idea. The person who invented this clearly did not have children.

6 months

Elijah went for his 6 month check up on Thursday. Can you believe it? He is 17lbs 2oz and is 26 (and 1/2? maybe) inches long. I guess that explains why my arms are so tired. But I have been bench pressing him to build my strength;) You can see how curly his hair is getting in this picture.

He's been trying out food and most of the time likes it. His favorite is bananas and he even likes peas. I thought I was going to be all Martha Stewart and make all of his baby food. (Not that I think Martha Stewart makes baby food but she is synonymous with everything homemade, so you know.) Things like bananas and pears are easy but when you have to get out the blender/food processor, it's a pain in the ass. And with the price of fruit (except bananas) it is really not cheaper. But seriously, Gerber, why does your baby food come in non-recyclable plastic containers? All I want from you is to ease my green guilt a little since I'm creating serious waste with disposable diapers (ahhh, the devil!). But I'm not giving those up so at least let me recycle the containers the baby food comes in. I usually get the other brand that comes in glass jars but they are always out of carrots and they never have green beans or squash (what's up with that?). Ok, that wasn't supposed to be a rant, but it turned into one. About baby food. Yeah, I need to get out more.

Oh, I want to point out that Elijah does not always wear pajamas (even though he looks darn cute in them). But he is always in such a good mood in the morning (I don't know where he got that from) that it is always the best time to snap a photo, hence, pajama boy.