October fun!

This has been an eventful month. I had a birthday on the 15th, and Joel turned 5 months on the 16th. The 16th was also Joel's first experience with solid foods (hooray!). He started with rice cereal, which he seems to like. He impressed Keith and I, and Nana and Papa with his eating. He took to the spoon like he had always been doing it! Since then he has also tried to "help" us with his feedings by grabbing at the spoon and guiding it toward his mouth. Last week I started making my own baby food. I steamed and pureed a ton of sweet potatoes, carrots and butternut squash. It tastes wonderful, and is so much fun. We have a whole shelf in the freezer for Joel's food. We started him on Sweet Potatoes on Saturday...so far so good, although he does seem to like the cereal more. In a few days we will add one of the other veggies to his diet.




On the 17th we went to the pumpkin patch at Tanaka Farms. It was busy and hot, but really fun to see Joel with all the pumpkins.



Halloween is just around the corner, and we are excited to dress our little guy up in his first costume. Pictures to follow!