Good Lord, we have a 6 month old. A friend of mine was in town over thanksgiving with her brand new 2 week old and I can barely remember that stage! As you can see, Lewis continues to be ridiculously cute (that's an objective finding by the way).
He loves mirrors and will talk and laugh and reach for the other baby. For a few days, he would sit in the laundry basket and chatter away while Pete got ready for work. That ended pretty quickly once he figured out how to pull up to standing in the basket...
Over Thanksgiving, Lewis got to hang out with the kiddos of two of my best friends. Emily and Toby (the big 10 month old) live on the East side of Madison which is really not that far away - but still somehow with work and babies' schedules we don't see each other nearly enough. Meghan and her newest Mae (the little one) came up to visit from Ohio. It was pretty tough getting all 3 in one picture - all the others had someone sitting on or chewing on someone else!
Lewis continues to LOVE to eat! So far he has devoured everything we've given him from mangos to peas. The picture above is what happens when Daddy feeds him his prunes.
Just being cute... What you can't see are his two bottom teeth. He's a little drool machine that chews on anything and everything (and those teeth are sharp!)
This is a great age and I have to remember to enjoy it while it's here. Lewis can sit up really well now and can reach, grab and enjoy his toys. But since he can't crawl yet, I can set him down and still expect to find him where I leave him! That's soon going to be a thing of the past. He can already push himself backwards on his tummy and pivot all the way around. Over the last week or so he's been up rocking on his hands and knees whenever he's eyeing up a toy in front of him. He's also found that if he lunges forward from sitting he can get pretty far, and landing flat on his face doesn't really seem to faze him.
Our family of three before Christmas Eve mass. We ended up only hearing about the first 5 minutes before Lewis decided there were far too many people in the church and that he wanted out! We spent the rest of mass downstairs with all the other kiddos that got upset =)
Lewis got to open one present from Santa on Christmas morning.
He thought the ribbon and the wooden blocks were equally delicious.
Of course the real gift was spending time with loved ones. Here Lewis is getting loved up by Grandma Julie and Poppy.
