Week 32 - Little big man

Week 32 Picture

A constant theme I seem to keep returning to time and time again in this blog is what an amazing and weird thing it is that baby Jay just keeps getting older. Stupid I know. What else is he supposed to do? It's just that it's really  hard to notice developmental changes when we spend so much time with him on a day-to-day basis. Yet somewhere along the way over the last 7 and a half months, he learned to roll, scootch, smile, bounce, stand, sit up straight laugh, and (thankfully) sleep through the night. For this reason, those moments where he does something big for the first time that he never did before are extra refreshing. 

For example, he's recently decided that he wants to drink out of big people cups just like his mom and dad. It's really quite the sight. He leans forward as far as he can, wraps his little sausage fingers around the glass, puts his lower lip below the glass and then thrusts his tongue in and out of the glass repeatedly while making loud slurping noises. Most of the water ends up on his shirt and most of his backwash ends up in the glass, but it's an impressive act nonetheless. I never would have imagined a few months ago that the sleeping ball of flesh that is my son would soon not only understand the concept of a drinking glass, but would also figure out just from watching us how it works. It's crazy for me to think that before too long, he'll be at the point where we can carry on carry on a conversation and have a relationship infinitely more complex than the one we have now. Again, this seems to be an obvious conclusion most people would be able to come to without much effort but not me. Despite all evidence to the contrary, I sometimes feel that he'll be this age forever.

 

I'm so proud of him. It's so much fun to take him new places and let him try new things. He has such a love of and active, engaged approach to the world that it's hard not to just smile and let him have at it. We went to the coast yesterday on a bit of a daytrip and he was all over the place the whole time touching everything in sight. At dinner, he even ate about half my bowl of clam chowder. I'm looking forward to the days when he gets older and we get to do things like fly kites on beach, go camping up in the mountains, fish on the lakes, and generally explore the beauty of the Pacific Northwest. Til then, I'll just enjoy the challenges and special moments that come with having a 7 months old.