6 months!

 It's hard to believe it's finally only been 6 months. Everyone says the time flies, but you really don't understand how much it does until you experience it. We've started solids and I can't say he LOVES them yet. He certainly tolerates whatever is put in front of him. We've decided to make our own food for health reasons, but after being at the store today and seeing baby food jars as much as $4, it is now an economical decision as well. More about that later. LBC is growing as expected, continuing his comfortable stay in the 90th percentile in all areas of growth. He's around 20lbs or 9.5kg which is heavier than some of our friends' toddlers. He can sit up a bit more every day on his own and has been experimenting with new sounds. Yesterday he said "Gay din" which I'm sure he was just trying to say his own name. He also said "Boysic"which shows how clever he is by mixing the word boy and music to describe the noise he makes on his play piano. Or maybe he's speaking Russian. Either way, he's clearly a baby genius.

His latest trick is getting up on his knees and doing this:

It was so tough to choose his 6 month pic when you have gems like this:

 It was inevitable that this was going to happen....

But here is the official 6 month pic: