6 Month-a-roos

Now I normally wait until 6 months to even think about giving the baby solids. . . but this boy is growing up faster than the others did. He's got 2 teeth (and another one can't decide), he's crawling and pulling himself up (although he hasn't mastered a stand yet). And the boy gets mad if we don't share food with him! So at about 5 1/2 months we started introducing a little bit of food. We've let him taste too many things to make an exclusive list, but these are main foods he has tried so far:

• rice cereal
• oatmeal cereal
• peas
• bananas
• apple sauce
• pumpkin

Ammon also likes to chew on our pizza crusts, brownie crumbs, and other miscellaneous taste-tests of whatever we are willing to give him.

We started feeding him solids at dinner-time every other day, but the last few days he has been eating a small bowl of solids at pretty much every meal. The kids think it is fun to feed him--even if it does mean a little extra mess to clean up.

He's also been getting extra giggly and smiley. Maybe because he is getting into everything. He especially likes Grant's flip flops (don't worry, I take them away) and paper (mainly in the form of books). He likes to play peek-a-boo, and our newest tradition is a round or two of peek-a-book with the blanket when he gets put in his bed. This also seems to help to keep him from crying when he realizes that he is getting put into bed. :)

On another note, the Fall and Halloween decorations are up, hooray! Logan informed me that he was worried I wouldn't keep my promise (I've been telling him for the past few days that we would put them up), so whew! I am a lady of my word. Grant stuffed a huge brownie in his mouth when I wasn't looking, and before he had eaten his food, so I actually stuck my hand in his mouth full of teeth and pulled it out and threw it away. It isn't my most pleasant memory. Grant's finger also warrants a picture because it looks pretty spooky. You can see under half his fingernail, which is all black and gruesome, and it will surely fall of in the next little while. Joe went out to dinner with a guy from UT, so I made a teriyaki-chicken stir-fry with ramen noodles. It wasn't that bad, but the thought of it makes me shudder. Also, I was really faithful in doing couch to 5k for 2 weeks, but then I missed 2 weeks. Oops.