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Picture of the Day: 12/30/11

Food, Glorious Food

Simon has been working hard the past month to keep his title of "the best eater". He got off to a great start with the sweet potato and has been pretty solidly plowing through anything we can send his way. For a while he had a rough time with the greens (broccoli, green beans and peas) but with the addition of the food mill to our culinary tools instead of just the food processor we tried peas again and he liked them way better (still with a carrot mixer).

Today we tried avocado for the first time and the little man loved it. He ate an entire half an avocado (just mashed with a fork).

After the jump is a little video of Simon showing us how delicious prunes are (with a guest appearance from Amy's hands). And I've for some reason also included a list of all the foods he's eaten to date and how he liked each one. Way too much detail, obviously I'm getting slap happy and should go to bed.

Christmas in Chicago

We had a lovely Christmas and Simon had a blast.  He wore a cute new reindeer outfit from his Aunty Lisa. Simon got a bunch of wonderful presents - toys and clothes and books, along with a food mill we can use to make his baby food and a wipe warmer so we don't freeze his poor bum with cold wet cloth wipes!  But his favorite present of all might have been the tissue and wrapping paper things were wrapped in (which we didn't let him eat). We did let him eat the "baby paper" that crunches like tissue paper but was cloth wrapped so it doesn't break away when soaked in drool.

After the jump are some (okay, a whole lot of) pictures.

Christmas Present Photo Shoot

This morning Jenn gave us a Christmas present from her and Simon: an amazing framed picture of Simon from a photo shoot they did last week at the Lincoln Park Zoo.

We love the picture and can't wait to hang it up and show it off.  As a bonus she also gave us a cd with some of the outtakes from that day, and those are all great too. (See those after the jump)

Thanks again for the fantastic present, Jenn!

Present Intro

Simon opened his first present today - from Jenn. He loved the ribbon though he didn't try to eat it, just played with it. Even with help he didn't quite understand the whole ripping of paper thing . He was very neat and a little surprised every time the paper ripped. When the present came out, it was the tissue paper that won the day. Again, no eating, just lots of crunching! The present was a rocker onsie with matching comfy pants with pockets - which I'm sure you'll see in a post soon!

6 Months Old

Our young man is six months old today. Man how time flies. We took a couple pictures special of his newest skill - in crawl position. There is a little rocking, but mostly when you put him on his hands and knees he just hangs out and checks out the world from the new vantage point

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