Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Babyness




SeƱor Bebe is very busy these days, and very intent on learning to crawl. John and I feel that we can see the person emerging in these photos, and that's the sense you get as you watch him exploring and struggling and arriving at accomplishing a task-- this is what we are all doing. What a privilege to see your child emerging into personhood, with such fierce determination to learn what it is to be a human being.

He can hold himself up beautifully on his hands and is starting to locomote, backwards. This makes him very frustrated when he wants to get a toy that's in front of him. Before he has his bath he wriggles around on the shag rug, and the baby is back again.

Sunday, May 16, 2010

Food, Glorious Food




George has begun what seems will be a lifelong love affair (we know it is for us). Sweet potato is his first taste of solid food, and though it must be very strange at first, he is coming to be decidedly partial. The last is from when Gram and Connie came to visit a couple of weeks ago.