Getting cuter!

It's Spring in Boston!
(Never mind that snow)

Sorry this is so late!  Since Laurie went back to work, we've both been quite a bit busier.  More so her than me, but apparently enough to keep me off the blog.  So I've got a month and a half to catch up with!  The time lapse version:  rolling over; grabbing (and drooling on) everything; digs the jumper; has crazy jumping legs where ever he is; really digs his nanny; thinks whistling is funny; and just started eating from a spoon.  And he definitely looks like Jake now - he's well past the generic baby look.  Does he look more like Laurie or me, you ask?  No idea, really.  His eyes match mine.  Everything else is all him.

Rolling over:  even though his first ever rolls were front to back, he seems to have little interest in being on his back now - even when being on his belly is frustrating him (though that's getting less often, too).  So he's almost always trying to get onto his stomach if he's not already there.  Once there, he wriggles around a lot.  Sometimes it looks like trying to crawl - just coincidence, or does he know?  Sometimes he has his tiny baby butt in the air.  More often he has his giant baby head lofted up in a novice bhujanga (aww - what a cute little cobra!).  Never together yet.  If I try to coach his legs under him to a crawl position, he spring boards forward mightily - is Striking Cobra a dynamic yoga move???

We've been taking somewhat fewer pictures,
but they're all so darn cute!

 Grabbing/drooling:  frankly, I don't know how he doesn't get dehydrated.  He's a regular fountain.  My favorite is that he tries to kiss (or eat?) himself in the mirror now - leaving a snail trail behind, of course.  And if an object can't be brought to the mouth, he'll gladly bring the mouth to the object.  Nothing placed within reach is safe.  Including Laurie's hair.





The jumper:  he's preferred standing to laying down or sitting for at least a couple months now.  And he's been jumping as long as he's been standing.  So as soon as he was big enough to get in the jumper, we let him have at it.  Even when his toes barely touched the ground, ol' crazy legs managed to bounce it.  Only downside:  when he makes himself spit up.  The hand-me down bouncer (from cuz's Nadia and Alexa) plays sounds when it gets bounced hard enough - Jake uses that as a warm up.

Whistling and clapping and snapping:  He loves 'em!  Which leaves me acting the circus clown just to get a chuckle, and sometimes settling for a smirk.  He's a little bit over the animal noises, and nuzzling his neck most of the time.  Belly zerberts are still a crack-up, though!  And flying high is always worth a smile.

The spoon:  Last Sunday was our first go at the spoon; a little rice cereal with milk.  He took pretty well to it:  opened his mouth for it;  kept his hands out of the way;  and drooled almost all of it back out.  Stayed in a good mood about the whole thing, to include cleaning his face.  Overall, a grand success.  A week later, and he's practically a pro:  it's about the only thing he does calmly.  And today "we" finally got around to trying banana instead.  I wasn't home yet, but word from Mom is that he's all about bananas.  Can you have a sweet tooth if you don't have teeth?

In other news, he's clearly found his feet and toes.  Rolling over often starts with grabbing his toes, then tossing the whole mess of arms and legs off to the side.  It's cute, but makes changing diapers a bit of a challenge -- he still thinks being naked is always an invitation to play.  It also makes swaddling that much harder, but we've more or less cut that out.  Can't keep him in anyway, and the fight to get him in it no longer outweighs any eventual calming benefits.









A late add (as of April 10):  I forgot to add the 4th and 5th month lobster shots!  His 6-month birthday is in one week.  Are you ready?

February 17, 2011

March 17, 2011

** update ** photos and video added.  And we've concluded that he's as cute as he can possibly get.  He may get funn(i)er, but cute can only be downhill from here.