Little Guy Will Be Six Months on Wednesday!

So my little guy will be 6 months on wednesday! I haven't blogged in like a month. I feel like life is just moving so fast and my head is spinning! Last night we tried to get him started on solids. It just became one big mess! It wasn't an epic FAIL because he did eat a little of the avocado we gave him. Enough to give us a little burp afterward. He made a funny face though when he was gumming the avocado. Like "Mommy what the heck is this mushy stuff in my mouth???" LOL! We actually are doing a method called baby led weaning where you skip the purees and spoon feeding and let the baby learn how to feed himself with appropriate fingerfood. I am reading the book "Baby Led Weaning". I don't think I will be following it to the letter but loosely applying it to our little guy. My husband thinks I am nuts. He doesn't understand why we can't just mash up some food and give it to him. I want to at least try the BLW method out. Our little guy puts everything in his mouth: our dreadlocks, remote controls, tables, fingers, sheets, etc...the list goes on and on. So I figure he can try sweet potato fries and broccoli too and sample the different flavors. He gets excited everytime me or my husband eat. It was hilarious watching him get super excited when my husband came and sat down near him with a huge plate of oxtails and candied sweet potatoes. To him it probably just looks like some new toys to play with. He is going to be vegetarian for at least awhile anyway. I may introduce fish with scales to him when he is 2 or 3 years old. I haven't decided yet. I eat mostly vegetarian and eat fish/seafood only occasionally. My mom is probably going to want me to give him cereal now but I plan on holding off on that too. She claims giving him oatmeal in his formula at night will make him sleep longer. Sorry mom but that is an epic FAIL! According to everything I have read, there is no correlation between solids and sleep. Some babies sleep through the night early on and some don't. I myself didn't sleep through the night until I was 2 years old. My poor mom! LOL! She must have been going bananas!
Today is such a beautiful day out. Luckily I was able to do lunch with my two guys and walk around a bit. I also bought organic sweet potatoes and organic broccoli for the little guy. Apparently those are good first foods. I will probably try to give him avocado again in a few weeks. And next time maybe I won't use one that is so ripe! The little guy was squishing the avocado in his hands and getting it all over his face, in his eyes, on the high chair. Fortunately it wiped clean so it was not too bad cleaning up. I can't wait to go home and hang out with my boys! It's friday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!