Ibbie :: 6 Months

At six months Ibbie is chatty, friendly, and remarkably laid-back.

The biggest change in the last month was the introduction of solid foods. I was planning on going with baby led weaning but Ibbie's sleep patterns started changing. And not for the better. Peter and I decided she was hungry so we went ahead and introduced solids the typical way with rice cereal and baby food. Her sleep patterns improved. To date, she has had peas, carrots, sweet potatoes, apples, pears, mangos, bananas, and prunes. She loves it all! We did let her gum a banana the other night and she enjoyed it after getting over the initial disappoint that she couldn't nurse the banana.

month one, two, four, five

Cole at six months

Cole's POV

We bought Cole a camera for her birthday. She became a photog in a matter of seconds. She doesn't specialize, she works as a nature photographer, product photographer, portrait photographer, and so on. If it strikes her, she takes a picture. Sometimes that means taking a picture of the wall or every.single.page in a book. Other times, it just means pictures of our family.

Here is some of her work:

A Berry Special Day

For Cole's first birthday, we had a Milk & Cookies party because she loved to nurse. This year, we had a Berry Special party because she loves to eat berries. I'm realizing that next year we may need to get away from the food themes lest a trend develop.

Anyway, since we are still new to the area, we decided to have her birthday party be only for family. We invited fifteen of our relatives into our itty bitty house to celebrate our first born. As it turned out, a few unexpected events prevented five of our guests from attending which actually kept the party to a reasonable size. Still, guests came from five different states which was completely unreasonable and such a demonstration of how deeply loved Cole is.

We visited. Provided an audience for Cole as she played and opened gifts. And ate. What more could you want at a two year old's birthday party?

Since my dad works on the weekends, he came up to celebrate Cole's birthday earlier in the week. We went out to dinner and played out the house. Cole just loves all of her grandparents.