Good Luck Charms

How can you lose when these two cuties are your fans?

Sic 'Em Bears!

First Foods

Gabriel is the kind of baby who doesn't believe he actually is a baby.  He is sure that he can do the things that everyone else can do, like eat dinner.  So, when he hit 6 months this week - the age at which the doctor gave us the OK to start solids, we thought he would be ecstatic.  Boy, were we wrong.  Meal times (all three of them) have been full of grunts of dissatisfaction.  It didn't dawn on me that he would realize he wasn't actually eating like everyone else.  But when your brother's plate is full of brightly colored food, like Cheetos, Granny Smith apples, and red grapes, the contrast between rice cereal (a.k.a. baby mush) and "real food" becomes apparent.

In this video, Gabriel's third meal, I'm trying to get him interested in his meal - which was darn near impossible since LT was sitting across from him eating an orange creamsicle.  There's never a dull moment in our household!

Baby in Motion

I see baby barricades in this child's future . . . many, many baby barricades.



This video is a couple of weeks old, and it doesn't really capture Gabriel's maneuvering skills.  He still hasn't mastered a "proper crawl," but he can propel himself forward for short distances and turn around.  When big brother is in the vicinity, he tries extra hard to get where he wants to go.

Giggles

When Gabriel was first born, I used to worry about bath time with the boys.  It's not always convenient or possible to leave the baby with another person while I get LT taken care of.  Turns out, with the help of a baby seat, bath time is giggle time for the boys.