Splashing

You had your second solid meal today - avocado (and it looks  like it will be your third tomorrow too). Your mum said you couldn't have opened your mouth wider in anticipation and wanted more. I guess it is that time of development: we stopped supporting you from below in the bath so you were pretty  much sitting up by yourself and as a consequence had your hands free to splash. You got me and your mum wet. We played afterwards and then you were pretty hungry, biting mum with your gums.

Solids

You're growing, a happy, chubby little giggler. We've been talking about weening but when I got home today your mum said you had had your first proper solids; you were looking interested in a banana she was eating so she mashed some up with milk and fed you with a little plastic spoon we (literally) picked up at my birthday party 2 months ago. It's another new stage. You are five and a half months old.