Baby got his first taste of real food today: Applesauce!

Not Mama’s homemade applesauce, but at least there was no added sugar.

He’s been so anxious to try food. His eyes follow our forks as we eat, and the past few days he’s been plopping his hand in my plate! Both of our boys seem(ed) to be interested in food way before the recommended 6 month start date, so we just follow their cues and feed them when it seems like they can handle it.

We’re happy to report the baby did indeed enjoy his applesauce, although he may have enjoyed it a little too much. A fair bit came back up!

But that’s okay. He’s got a whole lifetime to figure out this eating thing

Today was a rather momentous day for the baby!

First there was the sitting up. Not really sitting up, but almost!  When we’re sitting on the floor playing with the Boo, I usually prop the baby up on my feet or legs and he leans back against me. Today he was sitting bolt upright, and I could let go for a few seconds and he was sitting up! But then he’d pitch forwards or sideways. But still! Exciting.

Second was bathtime! My goodness, this boy is a water baby! Last time I gave him a bath he kicked around a bit, but it didn’t look on purpose. Today, though, the child was kicking up a storm. He was also sitting up (again!) and just kick, kick, kicking away at the water. His face was so very animated, he was waving his arms around, and splashing water everywhere!  I hope to catch it on video this weekend because it was too precious. I let him play with the water until it started to get cold, and even then he was kicking until he was entirely out of the water. He loved it!

Third was jumping on the bed with the Boo. Actually I was quite proud of Boo because the baby was lying on the bed, and Boo asked me to move the baby so he could bounce on the bed. Wasn’t that considerate? So Boo started bouncing around and I had the baby pretend jumping, if you will, on the bed as well — and he was practically howling with laughter! Both boys looked like they were having so much fun, it was so cute!

I love watching the boys interact, right now they really adore each other.

We discovered “bath crayons” thanks to a Christmas gift from Nanny and Grandad, and the Boo has played with them (and their successors) pretty much constantly ever since. Mostly he draws lines around the tub, or colors in the picture that came in the package, but the other day he drew this:

Well, I did the name, but he drew everything else. It looks like a hodgepodge of lines, but really it’s a map of train tracks.

This is extraordinary because:

1. Usually the Boo makes you do train tracks properly — two horizontal lines with perpendicular lines between. Since he’s gotten interested in maps he’s willing accept single lines as a visual indicator of train tracks.
2. He did different colors on purpose.  He sat there telling me that this train track goes this way, and that train track goes that way, and they cross each other here, and you go that way to get back to here, etc. etc. Pretty cool! I hadn’t heard him explain how train tracks really worked before.

I love watching him mature, seeing how his interests change, and listening to his explanations. Kids can be really great sometimes