Sad news. Mom and Dad have returned to Wisconsin to get their house ready to sell. They have made it back safely, sleeping two nights on the road. It has been a few days already, but it still doesn't feel like they've really gone! We have a plan to visit each other monthly, and the first one will be in the first half of June when Matthew is flying. Right now, though, we are lucky to each have houseguests to keep our minds busy: Mom and Dad are being visited by Utaka, and Matthew and I are being visited by Anne and Lloyd from New Zealand! Yay! Thomas loves his Auntie Anne and Uncle Lloyd, giving them lots of smiles and generally being enchanted by whatever they say or do.
As for Thomas, he is getting very wiggly. Putting him down on the diaper-changing table without a toy to keep him occupied is a sure way to instigate a wrestling match to keep him tummy-side up. And when he is on his tummy, he is starting to move very slowly (albeit backwards), and turn himself 360 degrees. We've seen him get up onto hands and knees a couple of times, just for a moment. He is an expert at rolling from front to back, and back to front. He is also pretty stable when placed in a sitting position, and can hold that position for a long time. Another thing he has started to do is put his hands on my shoulders and lean his head on my chest, and when I put my arms around him, his hands will wrap around my neck. I think he's seeking comfort from his mommy! He does it when he's getting tired during playtime, but he also does it when I pull him to sitting after a diaper change so that I can pick him up. My heart melts!
And Thomas has expanded his eating repertoire to rice cereal, pears, sweet potato, and today raw applesauce. He doesn't make a lot of faces at the pears these days, but today when we fed him applesauce we saw the screwed-up faces and the wide mouth with tongue poking out very often. So cute!
Sad news. Mom and Dad have returned to Wisconsin to get their house ready to sell. They have made it back safely, sleeping two nights on the road. It has been a few days already, but it still doesn't feel like they've really gone! We have a plan to visit each other monthly, and the first one will be in the first half of June when Matthew is flying. Right now, though, we are lucky to each have houseguests to keep our minds busy: Mom and Dad are being visited by Utaka, and Matthew and I are being visited by Anne and Lloyd from New Zealand! Yay! Thomas loves his Auntie Anne and Uncle Lloyd, giving them lots of smiles and generally being enchanted by whatever they say or do.
As for Thomas, he is getting very wiggly. Putting him down on the diaper-changing table without a toy to keep him occupied is a sure way to instigate a wrestling match to keep him tummy-side up. And when he is on his tummy, he is starting to move very slowly (albeit backwards), and turn himself 360 degrees. We've seen him get up onto hands and knees a couple of times, just for a moment. He is an expert at rolling from front to back, and back to front. He is also pretty stable when placed in a sitting position, and can hold that position for a long time. Another thing he has started to do is put his hands on my shoulders and lean his head on my chest, and when I put my arms around him, his hands will wrap around my neck. I think he's seeking comfort from his mommy! He does it when he's getting tired during playtime, but he also does it when I pull him to sitting after a diaper change so that I can pick him up. My heart melts!
And Thomas has expanded his eating repertoire to rice cereal, pears, sweet potato, and today raw applesauce. He doesn't make a lot of faces at the pears these days, but today when we fed him applesauce we saw the screwed-up faces and the wide mouth with tongue poking out very often. So cute!
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