This post is brought to you by the letter H and the number 6.
Dominic just turned 6 months old! I know it's silly but somehow, I get this little secret thrill that he shares his half-birthday with Derek's "real" birthday. Anyway, I just took him in for his 6-month shots and the Dr. said that he remains a very tall, skinny baby. He is just starting to sit up for short periods of time and has also started pushing his little behind in the air in preparation for crawling.
We also had a lot of fun with Dominic on Halloween. All the kids at daycare dressed up. If I was even half the Mom I want to be, he would have been an energy saving
lightbulb for his costume...But laziness (and busy-
ness!) as well as Derek's love of black turned the kid into a little skeleton. Clearly, he had no idea what was going on but he did seem to know that festivities were in the air. I cannot wait until next year when we can take him trick-or-treating and then steal his candy after he goes to bed.
Chris & Heather came round last weekend and spoiled us for our birthdays. We had fun hanging out, eating yummy ice cream cake, and playing together. Heather snagged a helium balloon for Dominic from the restaurant and I wish I had gotten pictures because he thought this was like the most hilarious thing he had ever seen. We're all looking forward to being together for Thanksgiving.
We also had the pleasure of getting a visit from Sylvia and Ralph from Hawaii. Dominic just loved Sylvia who, with lots of
grandkids of her own, knew just how to make him laugh.
Finally, finally(!), Dominic has started to eat some solid foods. He does a really good job eating, actually, and seems to LOVE the food. He gets all excited when he sees you getting the jar out and acts more or less starved until you start shoveling the food in. I have the normal pictures of him with messy face and all that--some of which I will post next time. But I had to first post this pictures of my 2 smiling boys, because it is a much better one.
Frankly, I find it a little ridiculous of us that we think that putting reindeer antlers on our kid is *SO* funny. But, for whatever reason, we do. I guess we don't get out much. Anyway, Dominic's friends at daycare made him his very own set of antlers and Derek and I have been amusing ourselves with them ever since.
Dominic has also really gotten into balloons over the past few weeks--he just goes crazy for them...He's constantly trying to bite at them though, and we're trying to avoid having one pop right in his face so we bought him this ball instead. He really loves it and laughs a lot when he plays with it.
Here are some other pictures from the past several weeks--one of us hiking with Derek, one of Dominic playing with his Dad and harassing his grandfather and one of him fast asleep in his bike trailer. Derek and I really do have ridiculous amounts of fun playing with him and being his parents. 
