42 WEEKS OLD!

We had another few inches of snow a few weeks ago and Dad worked form home, so we ventured out in it for a few minutes. These were taken in our driveway.

A few shots of Abraham @ 41 weeks. He has developed a "squinchy smile", I am not sure it is my favorite, but it does make me chuckle!

He still has a sweet smile, too.
Now he likes to "destroy" his gymini.

He is much more efficient with those chubby fingers now, but still misses his mouth about 30% of the time!
His favorite way to eat is to get something to stick to the end of his pointer finger and then balance it into his mouth. He spends a lot of time "poking" all the food items on his tray before grabbing them to see if they will comply and stick to his finger. Usually the only foods that cooperate are cheerios and veggie puffs, but he keeps trying!

Exhibit A:Eating cubes of tofu and sweet potato, the pointer is at the ready

I realized this week that if he is 42 weeks old, we only have 10 more weeks before he is a year! The fact that 52 weeks is a year has been cemented into my brain from years of teaching Kindergarten children that fact each morning as we did the calendar.

I thought I would just take a few moments to record some facts about his development.

Eating-so far, Abraham is a very easy eater. He will usually make a face when introduced to new foods and maybe even push the spoon away a few times, but will usually eat anything by the end of that meal. The only thing he rejected for two days straight was beef baby food. Jack supported Abraham in full force claiming the beef tasted like cat food, but after a few days of mixing it with other foods he likes and making mini beef squish sandwiches on very thinly sliced bread, he actually ate it straight as well. I read that babies/toddlers often have to try a food 10 times before accepting it! That is an encouragement to me because picky eaters are a HUGE challenge.

Crawling-I have been thinking our little man was going to begin crawling for the last month and a half and he has yet to move forward or backwards on his hands and knees. He just gets up and rocks and just when he gets to the point where I think he will extend an arm or leg, he throws his hips down and swims...silly Mr!

Talking-The repertoire expands quickly and he is constantly chanting Dadada--well, kind of a cross between dada & dodo (Short o's, like the sound o makes in Oz)


We took a "Babygarten" class for 6 weeks at the Collierville library. Sang songs, read books and made friends. Here are a few photos:

These other little friends were really crawling and getting around and would come over to Abraham & "play". Mostly, they would reach for or put their mouths on each other.