These are all from when Adam was 6 months old. There will be a separate Hallowe'en special.
destructo at work.
Lemme 'splain 'bout that there shiner. We moved Adam's crib out of our room shortly after he turned 6 months, when the risk of SIDS drops quite sharply. But before we did that, his crib was right next to our bed. And in a 3 am stupor, Adam awoke, saw/smelled me and pounced at me. Unfortunately, the bars of his crib stopped his progress. Ouch.
He actually seems to sleep more soundly in his own room than in our room - though not as soundly as in our bed. Also around 6 months, we got Adam a sleep bag (picture a very long vest with the hem all sown up well below the feet. He likes it and it helps the transition from warm arms to cool crib. It has a whole in the back so that it can be used with 5-point harnesses in the stroller and carseat. Very handy.
too cute! Adam still plays with the rattle at the bottom of this picture. By 6 months, Adam had located all of the door stop springs in our apartment. He's still playing with them and another oldy-but-goody, the cordless phone. Another favourite toy was the funnel - I mean megaphone - that I handed him in haste one day. Funny. He liked the megaphone but around the end of 6 months developed a fraidy-babyish fear of the vacuum cleaner, crashing dishes, and the blender.
But still the best toy ever: Kevin and Su's bunny, which very kindly let Adam catch him and touch his face occasionally while we played Bohnanza, my favourite game of late.
Ah. Back in the day. Sleep came so easily.
"Are you touching my piano?"
Adam's coming after the camera.
coming after the camera again! You have no idea how many photos I have of Adam going after the camera.
The pose is totally GQ. The photo is totally security camera.
one of Adam's first solid meals. We started a week before he turned 6 months. The novelty has worn off. He's a boob man. But today, he did sit happily in his high chair for his first banana.
First foods: rice cereal, oat cereal, carrots, sweet potato, rutabaga, cauliflower, butternut squash, wheat cereal, MANGO!, Arrowroot crackers, soy cereal, whole wheat penne slices, egg yolks, BANANA!
Coming up: avocado
"yo, yo!"
Funny faces: around the end 6 months, Adam developed a fake cry. Very cute. He'd squish up his face and cry but peek through to see what we were going to do about it. Usually, I'd laugh. So he'd laugh too. He had another funny face - a really exaggerated smile that he usually reserved for me. He hasn't done those much lately.
LOL.
The devil costume was provided by PohPoh.
Yep. A real little devil.
Keele and Bloor is also the location of High Park so we stopped there for the formal Hallowe'en portraits. I'm kinda kicking myself for not cranking down my ISO setting for the first half of the shots. They're a little washed out. Ah well.
I'm also kicking myself because I didn't realise until I got home and saw the shots that most of them have the grass horizon passing through Adam's head.
I've printed this one out and posted it above my desk at school.
The car ride home knocked Adam out. Since I had my camera handy when we got home, I kept shooting. The flash popped up automatically for this one. Not a useless shot, but not one I'd normally post. I turned off my flash but, unfortunately, too late. The camera had already awakened Adam.
Wow, what a difference without a flash, eh?! Sooooo much better.
"I had been asleep! @$#^^ camera!"
"Hey, this crinkles."
