So we went to the grocery store on Sunday. There is actually nothing new or overly interesting about this fact, we need to eat, so we go to the grocery store about once a week normally on the weekend. Anyways while we were there I picked up a jar of natural applesauce (not baby applesauce, just the general motts natural applesauce) for Sully. We do baby led weaning, which means he tends to feed himself most of the time, but I thought he might like applesauce so we got it for him.

Sunday after the grocery store Sully feel asleep and slept through the first part of dinner, which wasn’t an issue, when he woke up though he wanted to participate too, since we were having baked potato soup, I decided that applesauce would be a better choice for him. With the reflux and Eloise’s dairy problems I don’t really feel that soup with tons of milk, cheese and sour cream is a great food this early. So I got him a small bowl of applesauce and put him in his high chair. By the way I love his high chair, we got it for Eloise when she was a baby, it is just a basic one from IKEA, it is nice, sturdy and cheap. We’ll get him a Stokke Tripp Trapp for his first birthday, but for now the basic IKEA high chair works great.

Dan helped feed him some applesauce, Sully quite enjoyed it. He would steal the spoon from Dan after it was in his mouth and play with it until it was empty and needed a refill of more applesauce. So here is Sully enjoying his applesauce.

Today you are 6 months old, half a year. Wow did that go fast. I remember you being born and seeing you in the operating room while I was still being stitched up. I remember getting to finally hold you in the recovery room, and start nursing, which you took to no problem. I remember you first meeting your brother and sister. It is weird to think that it was 6 months ago when it happened. Now you are crawling and pulling to stand. You like to chew on apple slices, and other easy to hold foods. You are babbling, and you love playing and laughing with your brother and sister.

Happy 6 months Sully Bear!

You have gone from this:

To this:

In 6 short months!
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You know you are the third child when one of your first foods is smiley face french fries!

So this actually happened on Sunday. Sully has been working on hands and knee crawling for awhile, and was pretty consistent about it by Saturday. I made a comment to DH about it on Sunday, and then he told me to turn and look at Sully. Sully had apparently decided to top his hand and knee crawling before 6 months old, by grabbing hold of the sofa and pulling himself to a stand! He wanted to get a toy that had been put on the sofa, and so he did.

So he is now pulling to stand, though not cruising yet. The biggest issue is when he is done he tend to just drop and fall and hit his head and scream. So he stands is happy, decides he is done with this standing thing, or even better decides to try standing without support (really kid you aren’t 6 months old for another 2 days standing without support can wait a month or 3), falls, hits his head, and then screams. I go comfort him, put him back down and he repeats the above process. It is so much fun! Apparently he has decided he has to be mobile so he can keep up with his big siblings.

Oh and Desmond loves it when he stands, so he now deliberately moves Sully’s toys so they are up on the sofa so Sully will stand, and then tells me, “Look Mommy, I moved Sully’s toys so he would stand.”

Walking with my brother

So last Thursday I told Eloise and Desmond that we could go to the playground after preschool if it was nice out. It wasn’t it was raining, so I offered to take them to the big indoor playground/play area close to our house. I have been meaning to visit there for the past year or so. We went once when they were under different management and were not impressed, so didn’t go back. They were bought out around 2 years ago and I’ve been meaning to check them out again ever since. So we headed over and I paid for the two bigger ones (Sully and I were free). We got in and the terrors had a great time. There is a full size fire truck, a couple of bounce things, a huge indoor sandbox, a large kitchen area and a bunch of other things. They both really enjoyed it. Unfortunately they are closing at the end of the month, so we won’t be going back. It is too bad, they really did enjoy it which would have made the monthly membership cost worthwhile, oh well.

Here they are having a great time playing.

Desmond fighting a fire at a little house because Mommy left the cookies in the oven to long. Fortunately he is a well prepared fireman and once he had the fire out he also had all the ingredients in his pocket to make new cookies (flour, sugar, eggs, milk, butter, strawberries and sprinkles).

Sully sitting and looking around

So we went to the playground Sunday afternoon, it was the perfect afternoon for it, temperatures were in the high 60s/low 70s and it was nice and sunny out. We got there and the two bigger ones started to play, Sully was up on Dan’s back for awhile, and then came down to play a little as well. He got to go down the slide with Eloise and Desmond, and he sat and explored the playground surface as well. Everyone had a good time playing at the playground, it is nice that the weather is getting back into the temperatures that is a reasonable trip to make.

Here they are at the playground.

Sully sitting and exploring the playground surface

Eloise sliding

Desmond climbing the rock wall

Sully going down the slide with Eloise. Daddy helped, and supported.

Sully and Desmond going down the slide together

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Sully is now 5 1/2 months old and has been doing a bunch of things recently. He now gets on his hands and knees and pushes forward. He isn’t hand and knee crawling yet but he is getting close. He is army crawling, and he is fairly fast too. He goes all over the room when he is put down now, guess it is time for baby gates.

He now has 4 teeth! Two on top and two on bottom, he is still drooling a bunch, so he may have more show up soon. He is also babbling a bunch, he likes to talk to his brother and sister. He also likes to blow raspberries at them.

He can sit now for about 3 minutes by himself. He also has almost conquered going from a crawling position into a sitting position! He is almost there. He has also started looking at low hanging things and grabbing them in preparation of pulling himself up, he isn’t quite there yet, but getting close again.

Here he is sitting yesterday.

So over labor day weekend we did a bunch of things, the first thing we did that Saturday though was go to Renfest. We go yearly, sometimes two times in a year, but we try to get there at least once a year. I like going towards the opening because you can normally get a coupon and it is far less busy, so not as crowded which is nice with little ones. So we headed over on Saturday morning, we weren’t expecting long lines to get tickets since we got there about an hour after opening. Unfortunately, there were extremely long lines, though it wasn’t that crowded once we got in. So Dan waited in line with Sully on his back (for almost an hour), and I kept the two bigger ones entertained.

Eloise had been talking about riding the ponies since we got there, she loves ponies. In fact she wanted to ride one from the car into Renfest, which since we don’t have a pony wasn’t happening. As we were waiting however, the elephants walked by. Desmond looked at me and told me, “I want to ride the elephants!” I told him we’d see, since I figured those rides, unlike the pony rides were not going to be free. They played outside, and rode the decorative lions while waiting, doing a great job of waiting.

We finally got in and decided to get some lunch, first we stopped at a shop, and the two bigger ones debated play shields, but decided against them for now. So then we headed towards the doll shop, before lunch. We got each the older ones another doll, and Sully got 2. Then we got lunch. The food is fairly mediocre at best, but it was fine. We then kept on wandering. We found the elephants, and I asked how much to ride, after getting the pricing of $12 for an adult and $7 for a child, I told Desmond no way. Since if he went Eloise would want to go, and they couldn’t both go with me at once, they are too little for that, so we weren’t paying $40 for elephant rides. I told them next time we went to India they could ride an elephant instead.

Then Desmond played a couple of medieval type carnival games, he almost one one too, kid has good hand eye coordination, which he did not get from his parents *grin*. After that we headed to the ponies and both kids rode their two pony rides (kids get 2 free pony rides per visit to the Renfest). We then headed over to the playground where they played for a bit. One of the families that has twins in Eloise’s preschool class was there, so we said hi and hung out for a few minutes, before they headed on their way and we headed on our way. We bought some honey, spices (they have good curry powder there, who would have thought), and swords for the hooligans (including Sully). We then had a snack, their snacks are better then their real food, and headed out with two fairly worn out little kids and one hungry baby.

Everyone had a good time though, and Eloise was quite happy to get her pony rides.

Waiting for Daddy

Riding the ponies

Eloise is crying here because Desmond cut in front of her in line to get the horse he wanted. She still loved the pony ride itself.

How Sully spent his time at Renfest.

Sully practicing crawling!