Wow, I’ve been slack in updating.  The longer you go, the more there is to write, which just overwhelms my brain and makes me procrastinate even longer.

There aren’t any specific changes, really, just changes to the overall picture.  He’s so much bigger & older & more capable than he did a month ago.  He seems far less like a baby and more like an actual person.  He’s grabbier, smiley-er, more persistent, more stubborn, more aware, more communicative.

I’ve been continuing with feeding him solids, a couple times a day.  I originally thought he didn’t like cauliflower or avocado so much, but he loves it.  Apricots, avocado, cauliflower, yams, carrots, apples, pears, peaches, potatos, broccoli, and now peas are all in his repertoire.  He seemed to really love the peas, I was surprised.   I’m planning on adding cherries this week.

And NOISES!  His noises have stopped sounding like baby nonsense and more like human language. He says, “mamamamamamamamamamama” a lot and once, when I picked him up out of his bed, he looked right at me and said, “mama.”  Hmm…  He says, “baba” when he sees us bringing his bottle over.

I can’t believe I was ever worried about him not rolling over from his belly to his back.  Uh… the kid can MOVE.  He rolls, he scoots, he damn near winds up on the other side of the country.

He has a fascination with his hands, as of late.  He holds one out, as if conducting an orchestra, and stares at it.  Or just waves it around.

Right now he’s playing bumper cars with the stool I put in front of the stairs to block them.  He LOVES his walker.  His favorite position, ever, has long since been standing.  It took him all of 10 minutes in the walker to figure out how to zip all over.  It took me all of 5 minutes to realize we need to get a baby gate & start baby proofing, STAT.  In his walker, he likes to spy for things to grab.  Often, he finds power cords, dangling and likes to see just how long it’ll take me to run over and unplug.

OH!  And oh my god!  He has teeth.  It seemed like we were waiting forever to those bottom two to bust out.  They were RIGHT THERE for the longest time.  Then one day I looked and SHAZAM!  The left of the bottom pair had broken through about halfway.  Now the right one is about halfway out and the right one is done.

Now he’s wandering around the kitchen, banging his hand on the cabinets.  He also found the bottom drawer that we keep bags in, half open.  He reached in and started pulling out all the plastic bags.  Oh yes, yes I know – TIME TO BABY PROOF.

Yesterday, I realized that he’s probably going to be a shy kid.  And that he’s the sensitive little Scorpio baby I expected him to be.  He used to give smiles out easily & quickly.  But the past couple months, when we’re out and someone gets in his face to admire him & talk to him, he seems to pull back and start scowling.  (I can hear Chris saying, “He’s just like his mother.”)  He needs time to get to know people and doesn’t like people getting in his face.  Nuthin’ wrong with that.   But then yesterday, we were out for a walk, many of our neighbors were out enjoying the sun in one of the neighbor’s driveways.  We stopped to say hi and talk and introduce another baby on the block to him (10 months, his first girlfriend, perhaps?)  I noticed that the 10 month old was happy to be around a lot of people, smiling at everyone and grabbing for Felix.  Felix sat in his stroller looking disturbed & overwhelmed by all the people and finally started crying.  I picked him up and he hid his face in my shoulder.

Yup.  He might look like his Dad but he’s sure starting to seem a lot like his mom.