My child, you are almost nine months old. In the last three months you’ve gone from a wobbly sit to a confident crawl; from still to constant motion. You’ve gone from only ever mama’s milk to fruits, veggies, yogurt, and Cheerios. You’re growing! Here are some of my favorite pictures from this month.
Preparations for winter: knitting sweaters. Del models.
Del Walls has his first tooth!
It appeared a few days ago, making its presence known with a little stab during a naptime nursing. Yipes!
So, the day it showed up, I took pictures:
No thanks.
I said noooooo.
OK, man, ok. Be stingy with your tooth…
Today I tried again:
You wanna show them my tooth…?
…
WHAT PART OF NO DON’T YOU UNDERSTAND?
Tough luck, peeps.
My smart, gorgeous, happy son. We played together for an hour this morning, just trying out one toy after another and talking about them: what color they were, what sound they made, what they were called. I love this.
Many thanks to my great friend and fellow photographer, Kristi Meacham for her beautiful photos – a little six-month birthday present to her favorite baby in the whole wide world from his bestest auntie. Won’t it be fun to look at these with him when he’s bigger?
This might be my favorite stage yet, in spite of the new set of challenges of changing sleep patterns and teething that strike about now. Del is getting so playful, opinionated and “interactive”. His interests and personality are beginning to emerge and every day reveals some new little thing he learns or discovers. Also, I did a set of 6 month photos that I am very proud of.
A few new facts about you, Del:
My little Red Bean, here you are at 6 months:
Hey girl.
I can hardly believe our baby is six months old already! The time has gone by so very quickly. There’s barely a moment to soak in one phase of babyhood before another begins. Tonight we had family photos taken with Auntie Kristi, so I’ll post those as soon as I get them back. I plan to shoot some six month photos of Del of my own too. In the meantime, here are some favorites off my iPhone from the last few weeks as Del has approached the six month mark!
We went to Granddude and Nana’s for dinner last night. After dinner, Dave (Granddude) brought out old photos of Zach as a baby! We phone-photo’d a few and scanned a few. The likeness is really adorably amazing!
I love this photo Dave took of Zach getting a bath – can’t wait to recreate it with Del, and hang the two prints together in the bathroom.
And one last photo: Dave, Zach and Del, when Del was just a couple of weeks old:
We’re visiting my family in July for my brother’s wedding, and I hope to get Mom to pull out my baby book so I can get copies of myself at this age too.
Tonight Del Giacomo Walls ate his first solid food! I made fresh steamed sweet potato and mama’s milk puree, and we set Del up in his Bumbo seat to have a taste. He LOVED it. I am so proud of my little guy. He ate happily, played with the spoon himself, and, because our child is hilarious, he licked his tray between bites! After his bath (sweet potatoes are sticky!) he snuggled up and nursed and fell asleep. Oh my little baby, soak in all those vitamins. This mama is one happy lady.
On Thursday I was getting ready for a client meeting at my apartment. I needed to do some housework but Del wanted some attention. I unwittingly found a solution to both of my problems:
So, Roomba: cleans the floor. Entertains the baby. And instead of getting other cleaning done, me? I was taking pictures.
To end this post, here ya go. One day soon my son may join the too-many-videos of babies riding roomba on the internet.
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