Backpacking with a baby and Britton's half birthday

I can't believe its almost October and Darren is already finishing his first quarter of dental school. His last day of class is tomorrow and finals are Wednesday, Thursday and Friday and then he has next week off before the new quarter begins. Yeah! We're going camping and boating with Darren's parents. I also can't believe Britton is 6 months old. Sept. 9th was his half birthday and we let him have strawberries (pureed) to celebrate. He has graduated from just rice cereal and now eats rice cereal, oatmeal, spinach, avocado, bananas, watermelon, and strawberries.

A few weeks ago we went in to wake up Britton from a nap and he was sitting up in his Graco. He did it a few times that week but now he often moves from a laying down to a sitting up position so I think its safe to say it's no longer by accident. The routine usually is: we lay him on his back, he rolls on to his stomach, he goes on to his hands and knees and rocks/scouches and then sits up. We need to start child proofing our apartment.Britton's first camping trip.

Britton is a great napper and a great hiker; the two go nicely together.
This was our first backpacking trip with Britton. He was great hiking; happy and napping during the day, but we decided he was too heavy for backpacking. He did very well the first night but not so good the second night. There were some birds that went crazy at like 10:30 and woke us and Britton up. Britton was not happy and I felt bad for the other campers around us.
Britton's 6 month photo. Results from 6 month check up: 28.5 inches (off the charts) and 20 lbs 8 oz (91st percentile).
Darren took Britton to the beach and let him play in the sand.
Raspberry torte that we made....delicious!