School is out for the summer and I am so excited to hang out with Little Man all summer. He has changed so much over the last few months and is now on the move. I can't imagine how much he will change before I go back to school. By the way it turns out my maternity leave is/was twice as long as summer break. Holy Cow is that ridiculous. My county has adopted a new calendar for this school year (which I am way excited about) in which we have a week long fall break, a week for Thanksgiving, 2 weeks for Christmas, a week long winter break in February and a week for Spring Break. These breaks will fall during much needed breaks, for teachers and students. As a result of these extra breaks, we have are starting school back during the first week in August, which means I start back in July. Crazy
Here is a picture from mid April of Caleb and his Daddy.
Okay now on to Caleb. Oh how he is growing. Lets see if I can recap the last two months.
~ He is so responsive. He smiles and laughs often. But he doesn't smile for just anyone, he has to know you.
Talking to my Daddy.~ He can crawl now. However, it isn't a normal crawl he uses his right knee and his left foot. Not sure exactly why. Sometimes I think he is so slow, but if I take my eyes off him he will be across the room. As of right now he doesn't crawl much if I'm on the floor with him.
I'm on the move (sorry about the messy hand)
Check out the knee, and foot action~ He loves to stand. It is his favorite thing to do. He has gotten really good at pulling himself up on almost anything. And he is getting a lot stronger/more sturdy, as he isn't falling as much.
Look at me, I'm standing
I look more and more like my daddy every day (with my mom's eye color and maybe her hair color also)~ He started eating solids. Woo Hoo. I wanted to wait until he was 6 months old. We started with rice cereal which he disliked so much that he would suck his thumb in an effort to stop us from feeding him. After a few days of trying rice cereal and wasting all that fabulous breast milk, I mixed the rice cereal with pears and he loved it. We went slow with food, only trying one new food a week. Caleb really enjoyed eating and after two weeks I added solid food at breakfast and lunch. Which made a huge difference in his temperament at day care. He was so much calmer when I picked him up (aka not starving). He seemed to play more and overall enjoy himself much more. A week later we added dinner also. After Chris took him to the doctor for his 6 month check up the doctor said we could increase the quantity of food and Caleb was ready to start eating #2 food. Now he is up to three meals a day with a larger quantity for dinner. He wants to feed himself, but can't figure it out. He puts everything in his mouth, and I mean everything but it seems that he can't figure out food yet.
Look Mom I made a mess.
Mmm, sweet potatoes~ Caleb has started crying when he gets frustrated. That means crying when you take away a toy, or when you stop him from getting into something.
Can you see the tears welling up?
I didn't want to leave you with a sad picture. As you can tell Max is still always near by. Caleb has started petting Max and he actually smiled the other day after Max licked him.
