He is now sitting up on his own! He mostly does the "gorilla sit," but he can balance with no hands for a few seconds.
He is "creeping." Actually, it is more like "inching" like an inchworm. When he is on his belly, he pulls his legs up underneath him, digs his toes into the floor, and pushes himself forward.
He is learning to use a sippy cup!
He is eating lots of new foods. We recently introduced bananas, oatmeal, avocado, and applesauce. He loves the bananas and oatmeal. The avocado was not such a big hit, although he would eat it when mixed with bananas (strange combo, I know). He was a little skeptical of the applesauce, but I think it will grow on him!
He is really developing quite the personality. He is quite a ham and a real flirt, too! He has really become fascinated with the dogs and will reach out to pet them whenever they come near. Today, Jeff had him "riding" Dixie, which he thought was pretty funny!
And, the biggest milestone yet, HE HAS A TOOTH!!! It just appeared one day out of the blue! I can't seem to get a photo of it, because it is on the bottom and he always sticks his tongue out and covers it up when we try to look at it. :)
People area always commenting on how big Cole is, but I don't think Jeff and I realized quite how big until yesterday. We went to a squadron BBQ where there were at least 4 other babies around Cole's age. He seriously looked twice as big as all of them! So either the other 4 babies are small, or Cole is HUGE! We will see for sure at his next doctor's appointment on August 20, but I am guessing he will weigh close to 20 lbs. All I know is that my back is killing me from lugging him around and bending over to pick him up!
Here are Cole and Gavin catching some ZZZ's at the party yesterday. They remind me of two old men watching golf in their recliners!
Other recent milestones that I failed to blog about: I turned 30 on July 26!!! I still can't believe it! Also, Jeff and I had our 7 year anniversary on July 20. :) We celebrated by going out for a nice dinner and even had a babysitter. The next weekend we went to Austin for a quick weekend getaway.
Here are my boys having lunch in Austin.
Cole and Daddy on their laptops at the hotel.That's all for now...more to come soon!
Hi there! We are having a great time in PA and I just had a little down time so I decided to check out your blog. Is that water that Cole's drinking in the sippy cup? We gave Everett rice cereal for the first time yesterday and took a 10 minute video of it. We were laughing so hard that the camera is shaking during most of it :) We get back on the 23rd so I call you sometime during that week. Hope you guys are doing well!
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