Happy leap day

February has finished and it seems like fall still.  I don't know if the groundhog saw his shadow or not but there should be something about winter not starting.  Our biggest snowfall, which was only a couple inches, was around Halloween.  Maybe it's better that Colin's first winter wasn't a harsh one.

Colin has reached a few big milestones.  He now has his 2 lower teeth.  Taking a picture of them has proven difficult.  When a 'good' one was taken it was difficult to tell if you were looking at teeth.  Hopefully we'll be able to get something for the March album.  We're going to go ahead and call it crawling.  He can prop himself up on his knees and lunge forward.  It usually ends in a faceplant, but not always.  He can move forward, just not very well.  Hopefully the crawling video will be another great March addition.  He has also grown up and moved out.  He sleeps in his room now which he seems okay with.  Naps are no problem but he gets up every couple hours during the night.  He doesn't have his night feeding anymore but he is getting up more often than when he did.

He is definitely recognizing food we eat and that causes the mouth to go into "big-boy mouth" mode.  That is the mouth open as wide as possible and the tongue wiggling around in there.  Luckily he's not fussy when he can't have our food...yet.  He eats plenty of his food.  Sweet potatoes and apples are on the top of the list.

He is more interactive with his environment now.  Mommy's hair is probably at the top of the list but he'll grab for anything in passing.  We've dug into his toy box and he'll play with his toys for a while now.  That usually entails swinging them around until the fly off somewhere and, of course, eating them.  He also seems to enjoy music.  He'll go the the library sometimes to listen to Ms Melissa sing and sing along.  He'll sing along with the baby music or mommy/daddy music on the radio.  Music will often produce a smile.

I guess that is all for now.  Here's the Feb album.

Yea!! 6 Months Old

       So we think that Colin is undergoing training to be a cage fighter.  He spends most of his awake time going through a pretty rigorous workout of push-ups, crunches, pull-ups and rapid leg squats.  He also is working on his attacks with his arms.  We're surprised he hasn't left any black eyes or bruises on us from his vicious arm chops.  Needless to say, he is quite active.  He's still working on crawling and sitting up.  He can sit on his own if he's propped and can scoot backwards pretty good.  His push-up clears the floor all the way to his toes but he doesn't get his knees under him very often.  He rolls quite a bit too but not to move very far.
   After letting us know, at 10p, 10:30, 11, 11:30....(you get the idea), that he was big enough to move out on his own we finally moved the crib to his room.  He's been doing fine but hasn't been sleeping very well for about a week.  That could be teething or just some random baby reason....we only know that we don't sleep.
   He's been eating more real foods.  Apples can be added to the 'like' list and peas (just like his daddy) can be added to the 'gross' list.  He loves eating and taking sips of water.

     We are looking forward to him crawling and adding more sounds to his growing baby vocabulary.  February is a short month so the album of pictures for the month aren't too far off.