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Finally learning to sleep on my tummy- and boy do I sleep well... 12-14 hours well:) This is probably due to having all of my favorite things in the crib with me!


A box! Who knew I'd love such simple pleasures? Oh, and I can sit all by myself:) You can probably also tell that I'm teething now. The drool is plentiful! A picture of my bottom tooth will come later, once I allow mommy to take it's picture.


Outside enjoying the morning with daddy, the yard gnome, and some frog buddies.

growing tastebuds

Although he's not eating table food three times a day quite yet, Grant is definitely expanding his food horizons. So far his line-up includes pureed acorn squash, green beans, zucchini, carrots, and his personal favorite- sweet potatoes. A boy after his mother's own heart:) He also enjoys a fair share of pureed fruits. We've also started letting him explore with cut up avocado, mandarin orange pieces, cheerios, and recently Puffs, which are like a cereal for babies that dissolves super fast in their mouth. He's progressing from not being able to pick up any of these items, to picking them up in the palm of his hand but not able to get them in his mouth, to putting much of his hand in his mouth to get that tiny piece of food in there as well:) Grant is also quite interested in all food and drink he sees us consuming. Recently we let him explore with a slice of an apple. He really enjoyed gumming it and tasting it's flavor, as well as using the top of his little budding tooth to cut small bits of the apple off. He's also discovered another item to gnaw on, though this one was without our prompting. I guess this will motivate me to keep every part of the house as clean as possible. I don't even want to think about what made it into his little mouth.

alarming & a bit sad... yet exciting

I'm sure you can all picture a mother swaddling her new baby, holding him or her close to her chest. I'm sure you can also envision that little one curled up next to the mother feeding for the first time. What a wonderful and amazing process. How the child knows to do this from birth is beyond me. They enter the world knowing they need this valuable life source and are instinctively aware of how to get it. How beautiful!

Recently, this picture of beauty and time of sacred bonding changed in the Langstaff household. Today Grant decided he would prefer to sit up on my lap to eat!! All of a sudden he used his elbows to push up from his laying position, which I took to be a sign he was finished. WRONG!!! He was merely resituating before latching on again. I couldn't help but laugh at first, shocked that this was happening. Alarm quickly set in. What next? Will I be that mom whose kid walks up to her, lifts up her shirt and begins to feed?! The line has got to be drawn. I guess tomorrow the word "NO" will enter Grant's world.

On a different note: Grant experienced a milestone this evening. He has been able to get up on his hands and knees for some time now, though has never done more than rocking back and forth before lunging forward to his tummy... or sometimes his face. Tonight we were informed that he has indeed used his knees to crawl two paces. You read me right- we were informed.

George and I had a meeting which meant we left Grant with our dear friends the Colburns. Upon returning 2 hours later Joshua said,

I'm not sure if this is a big deal or not, but...

To which I exclaimed,

Yes, that's a very big deal! You're joking right?!

Nope, he was totally serious. I thought staying home with Grant meant I was sure to see all of his exciting firsts. Mark it down- one milestone missed:( At least he was able to recreate it when we returned home shortly thereafter.