a few of my favorite things...

a few things to remember about our growing baby.

one. pratt has started slamming his hands down on the tray of his highchair. or if he's sitting on our tummies, he'll slam his hands down on your chest. it's crazy to see things like this happen. he's learning how to use his arms...and his hands better every single day. he is also getting better at moving things from one hand to the other. oh, and playing peek-a-boo is fun. he's starting realizing that i'm hiding behind the blanket. and i've noticed over the past few days, he will actually look behind the blanket...instead of looking at where i pop my head out.

two. he loves butternut squash, carrots, bananas, sweet potato and green beans. he doesn't care for green peas. and he isn't a big fan of my homeade applesauce. apparently, it's sour. this breaks my heart. because i LOVE making his food. oh well...no applesauce for now. the organic, gerber applesauce rocks his world. i'll have to see if maybe they're adding sugar or some other type of sweetner. my apples weren't sour when i was cutting them up. who knows. i'll try to wait until he's older and give him apple slices. surely he'll like those.

three. in the mornings, he refuses to eat if his dad is in the living room and not sitting beside him at the breakfast table.

four. he grabs anything and everything near him. and if he can get a good grasp on it, he'll put it in his mouth. oh, and he likes to hold two items. one in each hand. and he'll just turn his head back and forth...looking at both hands. like he's thinking, "which one of you is gonna go first?" ;)

five. he must wear footed pjs to bed. otherwise, his feet get out of the covers and are like ice cubes the next morning.

six. he has started staying up nearly 2 hours after he initially wakes in the morning. this is new for us. and has me in a complete panic. i was good with our schedule...and now it's being tweaked. we'll get back on soon. it looks something like this, wake at 7, back down at 9. sleep until 11. up until 1. back down around 3. i've been trying to keep him up til 330. so then he'll nap from 330 to 430. eat dinner around 515. bath at 6. bottle at 7. down by 715 or 730. then we start all over again.

seven. he totally knows when you're taking a picture of him. or video taping him. and he will look directly at the camera and smile. or just stare. and as soon as i sit him in his highchair for breakfast or for dinner, he starts to bang the tray. and laugh. and drool. i'm not making that up. he seems to drool more when he's hungry. oh, pavlov...you really were a genius.

eight. he love ace. and if ace gets close enough, he will reach out and pull on his hair. ace just sits there. nervous as a two-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs. he won't move. he just sits there until you say "good boy, ace. let's get a treat." he really is the BEST dog ever. yoda, on the other hand...a COMPLETELY different story.

he really changes every day. it's really, really great.

oh, and here is pratt on the computer. just banging/typing away. he is for sure a boy after his mother's heart. maybe he'll be the next ernest hemingway. minus the gut-wrenching depression...oh wait...i guess that wouldn't leave much of any story...just kidding, uncle andy. just kidding...