Day at the Zoo

How cool is this?!?! The first pictures are of a baby snow leopard, the second cat is a baby clouded leopard. Troy has a friend who knows someone that works behind the scenes with animals not out on display and that they take out in the community and on tv. Thanks Molly, it was so neat!

Yum!

Mommy if you don't hurry up and feed me I'm going to have to eat my foot!

We can't seem to feed him fast enough!

Big Day

Grant's first tooth finally broke through today! I looked this morning and could tell it looked different. He had his 6 month check up today and the doctor confirmed it was through. This afternoon I could actually feel it. We'll see when the second one comes in. As for the check up, Grant is long (29 in- 95th percentile) and skinny (15 lb 10oz- 25th percentile). No surprise there. A few shots later we were out the door.

Grant has really made progress on the scooting front the last few days. He gets up on his knees and elbows and rocks back and forth (sometimes landing in a face plant when he gets rocking fast). If he sees something he wants (especially the remote) he'll work really hard and scoot to get it. He'd be crawling if he'd figure out he has to move his arms. He has the leg movement down. Tonight I had an empty Lays Stax can that I was beating on to make noise when it rolled away. Grant really wanted it; he scooted all the way across the rug on to the floor. It was so funny- everytime he'd get to it and touch it, it would move just a little farther away. He made it almost half way around the room trying to get that thing. Of course since it was rolling around the floor Miles thought he had to get in on the action and started chasing it. When Miles went after it Grant looked at me like "why is that cat going after my toy?" By the time we realized we should have the video camera out Grant was starting to get frustrated and mad. Next time we'll be on the ball.

6 months old

Grant:

• is teething
• doesn't want to stay on his back for long
• still has a little bit of a crooked head when on his back
• is getting some more hair
• is getting big (comparison here and here)
  

What's Grant been up to?

Trying new messy foods.




Watching the Olympics with Daddy.




Swinging at the playground.




Playing with toys.




Reading books. (Something new to scratch!)




Look at my monkey face!




Bubbles!!




Watching Miles.




Jumping bean!

Scratchy Scratcherson

Grant is a scratcher. He loves to scratch at everything. When I'm nursing him: scratch scratch scratch on my arm, scratch scratch scratch on his head, scratch scratch scratch on the pillow. In the car: scratch scratch scratch on the car seat. At therapy: scratch scratch scratch on the mat, scratch scratch scratch on the ball, scratch scratch scratch on the toys. In his crib: scratch scratch scratch on the sheet (This is often how we know he's awake- we hear the scratching get going). On our bed: scratch scratch scratch at the emroidered flowers on our quilt. In the exersaucer: scratch scratch scratch on the plastic. So we've nicknamed him Scratchy Scratcherson.

Dry Spell

I can't believe it's been 2 weeks since I last posted.... Not much has really been going on. Grant is sitting up pretty well, but he still isn't catching himself on the way down. He has a new face we call the cheeseball. He gives us this big closed mouth grin and squints his eyes shut. It's hilarious and I wish we could get a picture of it, but it's so quick and spontaneous we haven't been able to catch it. This past week he has become quite the talker. He gets going making all kinds of new noises and is getting louder each time I think. The sitter took Grant on an outing in the car for the first time too. It makes me nervous but I felt like I had to give in. We'll see how it goes.