The Beginning of the End

We've had two huge milestones in the last week. Last Saturday, after one of his usual pre-milestone long naps, Liam woke up with things to say. He's been babbling like crazy since. We haven't captured any video but we'll try to soon.

Along with the babbling has been an increase in laughing. He's been laughing for a few months, but only when we gobble his belly or tickle his thighs. This week he started laughing on his own. Wednesday night he was in his swing, zoning out after dinner and he turned his head to look at me and started laughing. His laugh is pretty much the greatest sound in the world.

The second milestone, God help us, is forward motion. Liam started scooting backward maybe a month ago and has been doing the 360 roll to get around for a while longer than that. Maybe two weeks ago he started pulling himself onto all fours and rocking back and forth. This week, he began pulling himself across the floor, army crawl style. He looks like a really, really cute inchworm. I figure it is only a matter of (very, very little) time before he puts the rocking on all fours and the army crawl together into a little racing real crawl.

Note to self: buy baby gates.

Ay Lake to Eat Ay-pples and Banaynays

Liam was double fisting his lunch today -- a slice of apple in his right hand and lefty was holding the mesh feeder with bananas.

Peas Are Good

Sleepy

This weekend, we went to the Hunter Ice Festival in Niles. Little guy
missed, oh, all of his naps for two days. He took some time this
morning to catch up.

Rip Van Liam

Our kid slept for about 16 hours yesterday. When he woke up, he could sit on his own.

Foodie in Training

After meeting Thomas Keller, Liam seemed really interested in food. We had planned on waiting until 6 months to start cereal (6 months = New Years Day. Thought it would be a big milestone day) but got too excited.

Liam tried cereal for the first time about two weeks ago.

At first, he wasn't a big fan:



But then he seemed OK with it:



He got better with the cereal each day and was soon opening his mouth and yelling if we didn't shovel it in fast enough.

On New Years Day, we did celebrate his unbirthday with some avocado. I first tried handing a slice to him to see if he would grab it and gum it himself:



No dice. So I mashed it in a bowl and used the trusty spoon.

He tried it:



He thought about it:



He went back for more:



And I think we have a winner: