25 weeks

What a fun week we've had down here in California.  Liam has been to a birthday bash filled with TONS of kiddos of every age, started on solids, is well on his way to crawling, and is trying to pull up.  Lets start from the top shall we.

Firsts:
First food, ok I guess it's really the second or third depending on whether you count breastmilk and that apple he sucked on a few weeks back.  Avocado!  Liam was certainly apprehensive and didn't get much in his mouth but he had table food.  We're using the baby led weaning methods to start him on full solids from the start and skip over the purees altogether.  If your wondering why we're going this route it's mainly because it just makes sense to me but you can read more about it and why it's done here  here and here.  It's certainly not the most easy method, I mean I could be spooning food into his mouth for him which would be quicker, but it allows him the opportunity to pick which foods he likes and actually decreases the chances of choking if you do it at 6m and on babies pace.

One of Liam's favorite places to hang out is under the table.  Brooke was able to capture a few great shots of him chewing on the chairs

The pulling up I spoke of before, this is the most common place it happens.  We still have bumpers up because he likes to get his limbs caught in the bars when they're not, but now that he's trying to climb them I may have to switch to the breathable ones.

Loving bathtime...until we try and put on his diaper and pj's

I was so lucky as to deliver Gisselle and it was her first birthday on Monday so her parents threw a huge party for her.  She was all decked out in her pink dress and was a fabulous little birthday girl, until she decided to feel the candle's flame.  Luckily she didn't get burned and recovered in time to open all her presents.  Liam had an absolute blast hanging out with all the kids and enjoying new people.  You may recognize some of the faces as those of Theresa and Eric's girls, they're just so adorably cute I couldn't resist putting them up

This next set shows the froggy pose that Liam does after he pulls up into a crawling stance.  He doesn't seem to like to be on his knees.  We've tried putting him on softer surfaces, like his alphabet mat and the bed, and tried babylegs to protect his knees but neither works.  Who knows why he does it, but it sure is cute.

I couldn't post about his first food without including a shot I saw someone else do called "I got this far on breastmilk alone"  Seriously proud of our little family for sticking to breastmilk and building such a healthy little/big guy!  It's going to be a shame to let him eat some of his calories by himself, I sure thought they tasted pretty good!

'Umm, what am I suppose to do with these things????"  Of course he didn''t just go shoving them in his mouth like he does with everything else, including the dog's food.  I've learned already that bigger is better when it comes to pieces.  He can't eat what's in his hand and can't get his hand open very well yet, typical of this age, so by having larger pieces he can use part of them like a handle and put the other part into his mouth to suck/chew on it.