Plane trip

So Eli took his first plane trip to DC on Sunday and did smashingly well! He slept both ways and I was very proud. He was an excellent little trooper.. Now, the HARD part of the trip was sharing a room at night.. We had our own room but he slept in a pack and play that wasn't familiar to him and was moving/talking/waking up every hr BOTH nights we were there. Needless to say, I was exhausted by the time we got back. Its hard being a baby and traveling alot. And to make it even harder/more challenging, we are driving to TN. on Sunday for a week long vacation...

Once again we will have our own rooms but thankfully this time it will be a suite, so we actually will have our own rooms and I can shut the door and he can get some sleep. And in DC our rooms faced L Street and in TN hopefully they will face nothing but quietness :) So we will see but another life experience- I had a blast in DC, although I, of course, didn't get to see everyone I wanted to see!!

Now that Eli is 6 months and change, we have started a more solid food routine (well we started it today actually). I will be doing oatmeal with a little bit of jam in the morning and a vegetable/fruit every night pretty much for the next 3 months. I also give him bits of bread, banana and mashed potato when its around. My goal is by 9 months to have 1 big bottle when wakes up, breakfast of oatmeal, another big bottle around lunch time, a snack & smaller bottle in afternoon, and "dinner" and another big bottle at sleep time. Currently we do 6 bottles/day and I would like to reduce that down to 3 bottles of 8 ozs and 1 bottle of 6 maybe. The bottle is the main source of nutrition until age 1, and food mostly at this point is just a learning exercise but having those 3 "meals" will help him better in daycare and just overall :)

He is doing better with his sitting up! He can stand up holding things with a little bit of help and is 100% interactive with people :) Alright here's a pic to go!