Learning to crawl!

Oliver is now 6 months old! Hard to believe how much he has learned to do in the last 6 months. On a basic level, he has learned to eat and sleep and breath and poop and pee and communicate without being able to talk. He has learned to smile at us when we look at him. He has learned to turn away from a stranger with a coy smile if mommy or daddy holds him. He has learned to sing both in expression of joy and to help keep himself from falling asleep if he doesn't want to. He can eat from a spoon and almost drink from a cup. He can hold out his hand to you and grab at things. He can roll over. He can almost sit up on his own. He laughs big belly laughs that make me laugh too!



What fun it is to watch the determination of my handsome little guy as he attempts to cross the floor after some toy. He just learned to roll over from back to front the first part of November and within a couple of weeks has learned to army crawl and propel himself and barrel roll! He makes very cute little grunting noises as he moves. So now each day includes a large dose of "free range time". Basically, he just entertains himself by exploring our house on the ground. I think it is wonderful - even though it includes dirty faces, cat hair from head to toe and to my sheer disgust a small cat "butt nugget" on the ground with fresh baby drool!




What an exciting time! Oliver is so happy to be mobile and to control his own body better. I think it is great that he is so interested in moving and learning. It certainly helps to tire him out and leaves mommy and daddy more open to do things other than hold and entertain him at times throughout the day.



It is amazing to watch this cute little boy develop with his red cheeks and CONSTANT smile!

As we get into December and I start the buying frenzy that is Christmas, I am trying to remember that the best gifts we have we cannot buy and that everything is much merrier with a little dose of unadulterated baby love in your life!