A controversial topic...

Benjamin wants a vegetarian baby... As meaningful as his intentions are they're just impractical. I'm not a full "meat eater" either, but Benjamin's a full on vegan which is fine. If we don't introduce meats into Charles-Winston's diet soon, his body won't be able to produce the enzymes able to break down meat and I want it to be Charles-Winston's choice what he decides to put into his body - I'm not willing to force him to be a vegetarian and then he won't be able to ever change. There are two sides to every argument though and Benjamin just wants the whole earth to be happy and alive and only eat plants, which is good! Great for him, but Charles-Winston might not (and probably won't) have the same views as his dad. 

     As well as risking Charles-Winston's decisions, we'd also be putting his health at risk, eating meat is good for a balanced diet - and there are replacements, I'm not refuting that, but so long as I'm the one finding, buying, mushing, blending and feeding Charles-Winston, he'll eat meat. If Benjamin wants to go through all the trouble of finding meat replacements for babies, so be it - he'll have to do that in his free time.

Charles-Winston Eating Turkey Jerky

Charles-Winston's six month "birthday"

What a memorable milestone! My baby turned six months old this past week and it was so much fun! It was over the 4th of July weekend. Firstly, he graduated from being a "supported sitter" to just a "sitter", so that was great, he's also graduated from pureed foods and is onto mashed, or blended foods.

     Funny story, how I found out that he was self supporting, I set him down by my feet so that I could brush my teeth and felt him lean off of me, so I looked down expecting to see him laying on his tummy, but he was actually sitting up on his own! So, of course, I just left him there and stayed silent and still. He eventually got bored of just sitting there and began to fuss after which I promptly held him and congratulated him etc.. 

  Although that transition would've been extraordinarily insignificant a year ago, I doubt I could be more thrilled now. 

     All these minute things that now compromise my life are comical when looking at them from a normal teenage perspective, and yet that somehow makes them sweeter. It's amazing how in the past six months, Charles-Winston has gone from living inside of me to happily living outside of me, he's squealing with laughter and "talking". When he was a newborn I recall hardly ever putting him down and even staring at the fridge longingly as my stomach growled because I was waiting for him to fall asleep, and now he's happy to have independent time, he giggles and plays with his toys and rolls all over the place with wonder and excitement. 

     All in all it's very interesting and sort of hard to comprehend how much he's accomplished over the past six months. What an amazing point in our lives.