3 Days, 6 Months, and 2 Years

THREE days of eating avocados and he's acquired the taste! He has been loving them since Tuesday! I think my friends "Correnta" and Kami were right when they commented that it could be a 'texture' thing. I thinned it way down with watery rice cereal the last two days and he gobbled it up. Here he is licking the spoon! I'm not sure how much I should be letting him attempt self-feeding. I'm sort of a neat-freak about James and need to let it go, I guess. I know he wants to dive into the bowl so badly, but I don't let him touch it and only let him have the spoon at the end of the meal.

SIX months ago today I was in labor...and James was born at 4:57pm. What a fun six months it has been! He's acquiring more and more personality (accompanied by a few more tantrums than he had just a few weeks ago) and it's just been too fun to see him discover new things all the time. We love being parents! No teeth yet, but we wonder if he might be teething...

TWO years (and two days) ago Mark and I were married! Some of you probably think--whoa, two years and already a baby? We've packed in, seemingly, a lot in two years, but I wouldn't change a thing. I love Mark so much and adore being his wife. He's a GREAT husband and father and makes it seem so easy!! These are the flowers he brought me Tuesday. Tulips and Iris! Aren't they beautiful? I've decided I don't really have a favorite flower but enjoy them all! We celebrated over the weekend when Andrea babysat (James was an angel for her--a 'first' for babysitters) and we went to dinner and a movie.

One of those self-taken, to-close-to-the-flash photos, quickly snapped right before James spit up all over himself and Mark.