Real food

When Gabriel had is 6 month check up, his pediatrician said that he can start eating real food. Jenelle decided, while she was pregnant, that she wanted to make all his food in the beginning. We started with pureed sweet potatoes. He really enjoyed his first taste of food.

Jenelle makes a batch of veggies or fruit every week and freezes it in ice cube trays. We defrost a few cubes for each of his meals.

So far, he has had homemade sweet potatoes, pears, zucchini, apples, butternut squash and green beans. The only one out of those where he gave us a "yuck" face was when he tried zucchini for the first time, but it has grown on him.

When Gabriel sees the bowl and spoon he knows what's coming. As he sits in his highchair, his legs start to kick and he bounces up and down with his mouth wide open.

Pickwick Park

Steven's parent's have a great, new park in their neighborhood. It has 2 large jungle gyms, swings, small rock "walls", gazebos to barbeque, and a large walking path. It's a great place to bring Gabriel when the weather is right. We have been bringing Gabriel to the park well before he entered the world. Steven and I (and sometimes his parents) would make our walking route through the park to the walking path while I was pregnant.

When Gabriel was about 5 months old, we decided to let him try out the baby swing. He sat in it and was stiff as a board. We would swing him and he would just look straight ahead and not move a muscle, the only things moving were his eyes...and they were staring at us. It was as if he was thinking, "what is this thing?".

Nana & Feve (Steven's parents) take him to the park on most of the days they watch him during the week. he seems to enjoy the swing now.

It's funny to watch babies experience things for the first time. Everyday is a learning process for Gabriel.

Baptism at St. Joseph's

Gabriel's Baptism was planned pretty quickly. Baptizing him was always something we planned on doing but adjusting to parenting life took over and the time just flew by. Before we knew it, Gabriel was 6 months old when he was finally baptized on February 21st.

Sheila and Jeff traveled from Atlanta to be a part of Gabriel's life in becoming his Godparents.

We had an "intimate" (small get-together compared to Filipino tradition) celebration afterwards at the Montesinos house. It was such a beautiful day and couldn't have asked for the weather to be any more perfect.

Whew...long time

It's been about 2 months since we have posted on the blog. As many of you know, we have had a lot going on over the past couple of months. We finally got approval on our home and moved in about a month ago. We are settling in and had such great help with the transition from our family. Gabriel didn't seemed fazed with the move and slept perfectly fine his first night in our new home, although he had to sleep in his pack n' play for the first week due to the paint fumes in his new room.

We'll post pictures of Gabriel's room soon.

Another comparison

Here I am at 7 months and Gabriel at 6 months.

Sittin' on the dock of the bay

Gabriel got a taste of his first kid birthday party this past weekend. In fact there were 2 in one day. I can only imagine what it will be like to host many of these one day. His cousin Lydia was in town from Atlanta and had her birthday party in the morning and then it was Mallory & Ava's party in the afternoon. We took him out on the dock at cousin Angie's house for some fresh air during Mallory & Ava's party.

Play time

Thank you to Aunt Cristina and Cousin Lydia for the fun activity chair! Gabriel is interacting with it more and more everyday. He is able to sit in it without falling forward, like he did a few weeks ago.