On his 6-month birthday, Ronan began eating solid food. He's done REALLY well with it, and now eats both breakfast and dinner each day. He usually eats about 5 cubes of food (I freeze it in ice cube trays) - one day he ate 6 cubes for breakfast! I was amazed!!
He switched from sucking his fingers to sucking his thumb almost exclusively. I think it started because he would gnaw on his thumb to maybe relieve some teething pressure, and he realized it's easier to get one big thumb in his mouth than two fingers. Sometimes when he's reeeeeally sleepy, he'll start to put the fingers in, but then he'll switch to the thumb, almost like he forgot. :)
We had adventures to Indianola and Seattle's Folklife festival over Memorial Day weekend, and had a TON of fun being out and about. Ronan really loves people and action!
We've been active in our PEPS group, often meeting outside at the beach or parks. It's so fun to see all the kids really grow and develop. We're going to miss them when school starts again this fall. We've also enjoyed our Kindermusik Sign and Sing class, and we've been learning and practicing a lot of sign language! We've met some fun friends in that class, too.
Ronan has started sitting up, which has made play time more fun for both of us. He's learned to take the toys out of his toybox... now I just have to work on getting him to put them back in...
Now that he sits, he also holds out his arms to be picked up. I think this is one of the cutest things any baby does, and it's a way of communicating a need, which I think is a huge developmental milestone.
I caught some great faces in his 7-month photo shoot...
These next three I may put into a triple frame:
And classic Ronan:
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