6 months!

It is amazing how quickly Gabriel is growing. So much change, and he has only just been around for six months. It's not so much that he is getting longer (70.5 cm) and heavier (8.4 kg) by the day, but he is starting to become a person with his own will.
For example when I am feeding him, he now grabs the bottle and puts it into his mouth by himself, so that he can drink at his own pace. He also wants to set the pace by himself when he's eating solids, which he started two weeks ago. He loves the rice cereal that is the first non-milk food given to babies in Canada, and he could not get enough of carrots and apples. Today, we tried pumpkin for the first time.

Needless to say that he liked it.

The food container is not the only thing he tries to grab. For quite a while, he has been fascinated by liquid containers, such as bottles, glasses, cups. He wants to hold them and he wants to drink from them. This is mostly funny, but sometimes, all I want to do is to drink in peace!

To finish for tonight (yes, I haven't forgotten about the Christmas pictures), here's Gabriel's state of the baby address on the occasion of his 6 months' birthday.

By the way: In case you have to rotate the videos you made with your digital camera, I can very much recommend the free program VirtualDub.