1/2 the Year is Gone Already.

My chunky monkey Logan turned 6 months old already. It's hard to believe. He is a champ at rolling everywhere. He will get himself all the way across the room if he sees something he wants. He sits up all on his own and really enjoys playing that way. No more laying down for him, which meant bye bye to the baby swing. He also loves to eat! His menu already consists of squash, carrots, green beans, sweet potatoes, prunes, bananas, apples, and cherries. He has even started to get mad if you don't give him bites fast enough. Recently he has started to push his butt up in the air and scoot forward with his front half on the floor. I have a feeling he will be crawling soon. Oy! Here are some shots from our mini photo shoot.

           Ham bone!!                                        One good shot out of tons!

It is getting a lot more difficult to get a decent picture with that bear because all he wants to do is play with it.

Brothers wrestling already.

Solid Food is Weird

That is what Logan must have been thinking the past two months. We began trying out solids a little after Logan turned four months old. He has a serious problem with "happy spitting" which is just a nice term for the fact that he pukes all over himself and everyone else all day long. Marcus had the same problem and starting out on solids really helped the issue so we thought it may help out with Logan too. The only issue with that train of thought is the fact that Marcus loved to eat (and still does) but Logan had no interest. Whatsoever. Rice cereal = lots of dirty looks and some major puking. Oatmeal = dirty looks and spitting it all out. Sweet potatoes = REALLY dirty looks. So all in all the first 1.5 months of this did not go well. Then I remembered  this little contraption we had called a SafeFeeder. You put solids in it and the baby kind of chews on it and the food comes out all mushed. So one morning I threw a banana in there to see how Logan would do. This is the reaction we got:

 There were definitely some funny faces but he did chow down and suck on that thing for at least 15 minutes.

 That was about two weeks ago. Then all of a sudden, in the past five days, Logan decided he was ready to eat and he wanted everything he could get his hands on. Thursday and Friday he had half a jar of apples/cherries mix. (We had already tried apples earlier on and he wasn't a fan but I guess the cherries made it better.) And then Saturday he ate an entire jar of squash and then was pretty ticked that there wasn't anymore left. Sunday he ate an entire tub, the Gerber 1st Food tubs, of squash. So it took a couple months but Logan is a solid eating champ and he loves dinner time! Here is a picture of how excited he is while Mom is getting everything ready.