Another milestone

I am proud to say that I have reached another milestone with Brady - he is now over 6 months old and I am still exclusively breastfeeding (and pumping)!  It feels really great to have made it this far and I plan to continue as long as possible.  I've gotten into a good routine with pumping and been able to keep up with the bottles he needs while at school, so that's been great.  It is possible that I'll be starting a new job some time in the next few months so I'll have to see how that works out with my schedule and being able to pump, etc.  At the very least I'll continue to breastfeed while I'm with him and then supplement with formula while he is at school, if necessary, but for now the plan is to just continue with breastmilk.

Brady started eating solid foods around 4.5 months and so far that has been going great.  He has had rice cereal, mulitgrain cereal, oatmeal banana cereal, bananas, avocado, sweet potato, and applesauce so far.  This week we're going to try butternut squash.  He is really a great eater and it's been fun to see his reaction to new foods.

We had a wonderful Chritsmas and New Year and MrKLB and I had 11 straight days off work with Brady!  We had such a great time and it was hard to go back to work, but we just look forward to seeing him at night and on the weekends.  He continues to be an excellent sleeper and we know we are truly very lucky with that.  He is a very happy baby and laughs and smiles a lot and is pretty much just laid back most of the time.  He's even been sick over the past month or so but you wouldn't know it based on his temperament.  When I picked him up from school on Monday one of his teachers said "Brady did great today... he does great every day.  If I have another baby I want it to be just like Brady."  Aw, what a nice thing to say!  If I have another baby I want him/her to be just like Brady, too!  LOL!

We'll be taking him to the pediatrician tomorrow for his 6 month visit so we'll have some updated stats then.  I've been pretty good about keeping Brady's blog updated, but wanted to come here to write down a few things, too.

Here are a couple of pictures of the little guy from this past month: