0 1/2 Years With Alcuin Charles

Alcuin turned 6 months old yesterday; wow how time flies!  During his well baby check up, he weighed in at 15 lbs, 3 oz (quite a load to cart around).  New accomplishments include chilling in the exersaucer, sitting (sort of), sitting in a highchair at restaurants (all fun and games until you bang your chin on the table), and sampling a few solid foods. 

Here are Alcuin's opinions on the solid foods he's had to date:

1. Piece of banana:  "Fun to squish, nowhere near my mouth, please!"
2. Mashed banana:  "Who'd eat this when you can fling it on the floor?"
3. McDonald's french fry:  "This is more fun to suck on than my pacifier..."
4. Pink plastic spoon from Yogurtland:  "Nom, nom, nom!"

Makes an argument for baby-led weaning.

In other news, we got the keys to our new place last Thursday and we officially move in May 17th!  We're excited for Alcuin to have his own bedroom and right now I'm contemplating making it rather, um, Montessori-inspired?!  We'll see how it goes and I'll certainly post pictures of the process.