No Way

Even Avery can't believe it. There's no way he is already 6 months old. It seems like just yesterday I was wondering if wee would be a he or a she, and now HE is sitting up smiling and laughing and learning new things every day.

I thought and thought about what would be a good 1/2 Birthday tradition to start. Avery was very excited to have 1/2 birthday cake in his honor. This year we went with white cake with fun fetti. I am thinking the tradition will be you get to choose a box cake and help make it. Then we will eat one half and he can choose who he wants to share the other half with. This year we chose our neighbors George and Brenda, they seemed really excited.
By the looks of things we won't have to convince Avery to eat his birthday cake. While we couldn't stop him from touching the icing we did get it off his fingers before he ate it.

This smile continues to melt our hearts every day. Even being the most non-morning person I know I can't resist it when he shots me a giant grin first thing in the morning.

We are so thankful for our easy going, happy baby. I am continually asked "is he always this laid back?" I can honestly say yes. He cries when he is hungry, sometimes not even always, and when we put his PJ's on. Most of the time even when he cries it is not too hard and not too loud. He loves to look at books, but we are having the occasional reminder that we don't chew on books. The play mat remains the greatest invention ever, followed closely by the off brand bumbo chair. It came with a tray that holds a toy he absolutely loves, between those 2 things he will play for hours. He also loves to stand up like a big boy in his exersaucer thing scooting back and forth to look at all the fun toys.

We love our little prince and look forward to starting many more family traditions.