Sitting up

Zach has made marked improvement in his tummy strength. We stay really close or put pillows around him, but he is sitting up and leaning forward for a toy and getting back to sitting well now.

These pics are from 7/3. He LOVES the pink serving tray Oma got for Caleigh -- just loves it. Don't know why. You may be able to tell, but the boy has very little hair. ;-) It's getting longer...but not by very much and there is not very much. We keep a hat on him when we venture out.

I like these pictures because it shows his determined side a bit, that's he's still happy, and that he has stopped falling over backward when he looks at things above his head.

This is his little basket of toys. Caleigh knows he can play with anything in there (as opposed to having to ask Mama/Daddy if she can give him a toy as we are wary of him choking on her little things, of course).

We have been keeping busy this summer -- walking to the library and having library story/play hours, parks and more parks and more new parks, Please Touch Museum, Zoo, and getting together with friends for play-dates and valuable time for Mama to have adult conversation. Although, I must say, it is refreshing to have (somewhat) adult conversation with Caleigh. The sentences are simpler and the content narrow, but it's amazing what she understands, thinks about, and spits back out later. One example -- we drove home late one night and woke her up from sleeping to go from car to house. It was raining and Caleigh told me it was raining on her head. I said it was just raining a little. She nodded, thought about it briefly and said, "so it's sprinkling Mama right"? Yep said I...