Day 151: Update

I was injured in a car/bike accident about 10 days ago so your Mom has had two babies to care for lately.

You're doing a lot of cool things lately such as:

• Singing. You go off on singing sessions lasting a few minutes to an hour or so (unfortunately you had a long one last night between 2 and 3 am.) The pitches are all over the place. Sometimes you sound frustrated and other times happy.


• Scrubbing. You love to scrub your face into the sheets whenever we put you down. Also, we put you down on your back and you immediately flip over onto your stomach.


• Reaching/grabbing. Whenever something is within arms length you spread out your arms and kid of grab for it. This morning there was loaf of bread right by your Bumbo chair and you got ahold of it and almost got the bag off. The amazing thing is your focus and concentration during all of this.


• Mouthing. Everything you can pick up gets tasted at this point. Actually, you've already seemed to grasp the concept of cups and you try to drink out of our glasses all the time. Yesterday you had were sipping from a water bottle at John's tennis match.

Day 137: 360 rollover!

OK. You're starting to really knock out the firsts these days. Here are a few of your latest achievements:

• Rolled over completely from back to stomach to back again a couple of days ago.
• Yesterday, Sunday 9/9, you ate your first applesauce (Gerber 1.) Up until yesterday you'd only had banana cereal mixed with formula and bananas from a jar.
• Your voice has definitely changed and it almost sounds like you're making words.

Day 133: Happy Birthday!

Nineteen weeks old and boy how the time has flown! This morning I noticed that not only can you grab the toys in your bouncy chair very well, but you can sit forward without a towel or pad behind your back. It seems like only a couple of weeks ago that you were swallowed up by that seat. You couldn't reach your arms up and slumped back and to the side.

Also, yesterday your mom showed me that you can easily turn over from your back to stomach. You just tuck in one arm and pull your legs up and to the side. It's amazing! You get a little frustrated once you're on your stomach however.