Big Man

Here's a new pic of our big man! Last Saturday we went to Fayetteville to see family & this was taken at a pizza joint there. I just loved this shot because you can see his little personality. I think he has a little bit of a fascination with teeth. His Grammy picked out the new hat which I just love. It's not actually camo like it appears, but bunches of little green geckos!

Jax is now cruising pretty well on the furniture & can occasionally stand on his own for a few seconds. He's fast when crawling now that he's mostly given up the army crawl & he's going to be a climber. He can crawl up onto the bed (our mattress is directly on the floor) all by himself. Of course, he'll try to climb just about everything else too. It is so cute watching him try to climb INTO the bathtub but some of the other things he tries to climb are a little more nerve-racking. We recently taught him how to crawl off the mattress backwards (thanks to advice from other co-sleeping mamas I 'met' online, I never would have thought to try to teach him that) in an effort to keep him from flopping down face first. It took him a little while to figure out what we were teaching, but now it cracks me up to watch him do it. He'll crawl down to the end of the bed, then start turning his body to the side so he can sling his feet off the edge. Then he pushes himself backwards until his feet hit the floor at which point he gives us a big toothy grin (and I do lots of clapping & goofy cheering). He's so smart... says the non-biased mama. Sometimes he'll remember to do the same thing off the couch, but it's a lot higher so we still have to help him there.

Jaxon's other recent updates:

- Has 4 teeth now with a 5th trying to pop through this week

- Eating more adventurous non-pureed foods lately including diced plain tofu, yogurt, spaghetti bolognese, mushroom alfredo, rice cakes, Baby Mum-Mums (some sort of rice biscuit thingy), avocado chunks, Mexican rice, strawberry pieces & shredded cheese (but still doesn't like peas, go figure).

- Still nursing a few times a day plus one bottle of expressed milk in the afternoon with the occasional bottle of formula when Mama hasn't pumped when she should.

- Drinks water from a straw very well but not a 'regular' sippy cup

- Throws things when mad (which is sometimes funny & sometimes so not funny)

- Favorite toys are the cat, remote control, iPhone, home phone, DVD shelf & tablespoon - in that order.