A little off the top...

Here's a video of Cole's first haircut. I did it with my camera, not the video camera, so that's why there's no sound.

Little of this... Little of that...

Cole will be 6 months old this coming Saturday and has been doing a lot of new things. Here's a summary:

He's been sitting up pretty well now. Sometimes he falls over, more out of sheer boredom or tiredness than anything else.
He wants me to tell you that he doesn't NEED his boppy. It's just that when Mommy walks away to do things, it's better to fall over onto that than onto the floor or a hard toy.

I don't have a picture of this, but his goal is to get his mouth onto his hard toys and gnaw on them because his first tooth is attempting to poke through his gums. It's the bottom left one. He's not too fussy about it, which is nice but the amount of drool coming from his mouth is astronomical.


Here's a photo of him gnawing on a designated gnawing device.

You can't tell from this photo but the front of his shirt is completely soaked.

Cole has also begun eating vegetables and fruits. His face when you first put food other than bland cereal into his mouth is priceless. He looks supremely offended.

We have peas (this was his first food other than cereal) and sweet potatoes. Note the bright green color of the peas. Nope, you can't get that from jarred baby food. Only from the homemade stuff. I'm making all of Cole's baby food and so far it's gone really well. His palette currently includes green peas, crookneck squash (from my garden), sweet potato puree and bananas. We will be adding apple puree and pear puree this week.

In other ADORABLE news, Cole and his best friend Harrison are really warming up to one another. Proof of their undying friendship:

How cute are they in their little khaki cargo shorts? Also, Cole totally reached out to grab Harrison's hand all by himself. This is what sparked the photo op.

Until next time...