Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Six Months
























Well, okay, almost six months. But close enough.
Calvin just gets more fun every day. Although he still has his grumpy moments, overall he's a pretty happy boy (as long as mama's around). I'm a little bit afraid I've given him some sort of complex because after this last semester of school he gets upset whenever I get ready in the morning.
We've started giving him "solid" foods, which has been SO much fun! It's the cutest thing ever to see how excited he gets when we put him in his high chair. So far he's tried tastes of pureed bananas, sweet potatoes, peaches, and rice cereal, and he's liked them all very, very much. The first bite always makes him pause in surprise, but then he starts waving his hands around and making little impatient noises. After that, he always tries to help guide in the hand with the spoon, which means that whoever is feeding him gets slimy up past the wrist.
Just in the past couple days he's started "singing" along with mom and dad, which leaves me and Peter laughing too hard to keep singing. The first time we realized what he was doing was in church, when the song hit a high note and he threw in his own very high note, and then kept up a kind of happy "AaaaAaaaAaaaa" in other parts of the song. It was completely and totally awesome.
And Calvin went to park for the first time! Peter planned a surprise picnic for us all and we went to a little park nearby to have some fun in the beautiful sunshine. Calvin went on all the slides with mama (even the BIG twisty one) and sat uncertainly in the bucket swing while his parents laughed at how tiny he still is (could have fit another baby in the swing with him!). Then we spent some fun time playing on the grass, and Calvin demonstrated once again how he is (probably) the cutest kid in all existence.

5 comments:

  1. Aww, he IS cute! You're a cute mom!

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  2. Oh Tayva he is SO SO SO cute! I just love him. Can't wait to play with him in a couple months! A tip for the swing: put a blanket behind him so he doesn't feel all floppy.

    I LOVE the pictures. You need to update with new pictures more and more and more!

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  3. I've never seen so much personality in a little guy before. Hope all is going well!!! It was so good to see you a few months ago!!! Love ya!!

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  4. what cute little tales of Calvin! [and photos, but you already knew that] I love how he has that little shock of hair up front like Edgar - [not to bring up a sensitive subject with Jen or anything, shh.] and way to be a mom who goes down the slides: [even the twisty one?] now that is mothering.

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  5. My favorite photo, crawling with a sheepish grin-so cute!

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