It has been ages since I last wrote, but the blog is not forgotten! I have posts on several topics that are itching to be written, however it has been hard to find the time to sit down and write them. The main reason for this is that I have started working again as of the middle of November (this topic deserves about 10 posts in itself). At this point, my workload is light and manageable – ten hours a week from home, which I can work any time of day.  I try to work as much as possible in the evenings after Gus has gone to bed, or on Sundays when my husband takes care of him for a few hours at a time, which takes away from my blogging time.

Gus is six months old tomorrow, and as expected since I last wrote, he’s grown and changed a lot:

Teeth – Gus has his two bottom teeth which suddenly appeared about a week before he turned 5 months. We  are expecting more to come in shortly as lately he has been pretty fussy and obviously bothered by painful gums.

Sitting – Gus finally started sitting earlier this week. I say finally because even though he started sitting right around  6 months, which is textbook, I had felt like he was sooo close for the last month. I kept trying with him, but he could only manage one or two seconds here and there until we finally had a breakthrough. We even managed to get some great video of the early sitting days.

Solids – I was originally planning on waiting until 6 months to start solids, since I am planning to do baby led weaning. however I caved and gave Gus some rice cereal this past month, since I couldn’t wait to start.  This is a topic that deserves a post all of its own, which hopefully I’ll get to eventually. In the meantime, Gus has loved the cereal and I’m excited to start the real stuff this weekend now that he’s 6 months old.

Mobility – While crawling is still a few months away (I’m assuming), Gus is getting stronger and stronger and has some rudimentary moves. I don’t know the official name for what he’s doing, but he plants his head on the ground, sticks his butt up in the air and propels himself forward with his legs. He’s not doing it a lot yet, but it’s very effective when a toy that he’s interested in is just out of reach.

I was planning on writing about our recently completed first family vacation in this post, however Gus is ready for a feeding so instead I’ll finish off with one more picture from vacation.

Gus in our new baby carrier.