It runs in the family

Corin's been chowing down, too. He'll pretty easily down 3x 4oz jars of food a day. We've heard verbalizations that sound like more ("mah") and all done ("ah dah") at appropriate times.

He's sleeping a bit better when he gets lots of carbs for dinner (read as most of a stage 3 jar (6oz) instead of just stage 2 (4oz)). We've gone from a max of 4 hours back to 6-8. I mean, his friend is sleeping that much... Yeah...

He'll cruise across structures instead of just along a single item of furniture. He'll jump from the easel to the ottoman to the couch, all of which require a little push to get across the gap. And he's toying more with standing. Today, he pushed himself up on my knee and then stood up. He looked really excited, wobbled back and forth a few times and then sat. I suspect he'll walk pretty early like his sister did.

He's already getting crazy fast at crawling. I need to figure out how we're going to baby proof the stairs, and soon.

Fang

Lower right front tooth has broken the surface.

That is all.

Baby's first black eye

Ryanne was trying to get one of her books away from him. She pulled so hard she ended up spinning around 360* and smacking him in the face. He has a swell gash on his cheek and the bottom of his eye is a little black and blue.

I'm sure it won't be his last. Not the way these two horse around with each other already.

On the flip side

He slept until 8:20 this morning...

Too bad Ryanne didn't.

I hate daylight savings time

It's his bedtime and he's WIDE awake. Could that be because it's still bright inside? This sucks.

Chrys is putting him to bed because he bit me. Teeth suck, too. Hmph.

First word?

As I've said before, Corin is entranced by our cats - Minuit especially.

Today, he turned around and I was petting her.

"[lots of excited babble]" pause "CAH" "[lots of excited babble]"

I thought, "Hmm...was that on purpose?"

He crawls over to her and she walks away. I put him up on the chair next to her. He starts excitedly crawling toward her. "Cah Cah CAH"

Guess that answers that.

Self-feeding

Corin is making terrific progress on his pincer grasp. He can now pretty easily get the puffs (cheerio sized) from the table to his mouth. We had been relying on the wheels since he could bite off of those without getting frustrated. The puffs were getting lost in his palm.

What's funny, though, is watching his other fingers when he's busily concentrating on the thumb and forefinger.

Sometimes he gets stuck because one of the 'extra' fingers ends up getting stuck in his nose. He tries to insert the food, but the extended 'extra' finger hits the nose first, goes up a bit, gets uncomfortable and the food hasn't hit the mouth yet. This is awkward, but humorous to watch.

Other times, he forgets how far in he needs to stick the food and ends up gagging himself on an extended finger as he shoves the puff into the back of his mouth. This is terrifying as I suddenly worry that he hasn't 'chewed' it enough and is choking.

He's come so far, but has some fine tuning yet to do.

White lines

Yesterday, nothing. Today, white line in the gum. There's bumpy and we can feel the ridge under the gum. There will be a tooth by the time we go to Midland next weekend. Maybe by tomorrow at the rate he's going.

He's been semi cranky, SUPER snotty and biting the world for weeks. Finally we will have something to show for it.

Finally got 'em posted

Now that my .Mac is working again...

New pics of Corin and Ryanne are on my .Mac page. There's last month's and the month before on the current and archive pages. I'll try to get this month's up when I get them emailed to me again.

The other side of the sibling

He worships her. He watches her every move. She cracks him up and gets better belly laughs than any one else can. He tries anything to keep her in his sights. He wants to be around her, to do what she's doing, to just be near her.

Someday, maybe, she'll realize how lucky she is to have her own fan club - hopefully before the lead member comes up with better things to do.