Rapid Fire

This week has been amazing in terms of Dexter's development. It has been days and days of quick discovery, experimentation, and mastery. He's pulling himself to standing everywhere, all the time. I found him today in his crib - standing! He pushes a ball back to me, turns toys on by himself, has stopped choking on the sippy cup. He's constantly babbling. I think the only word he says that is connected to any meaning in our world is Mmm Buff for My Bologna. He's creative and finds alternative ways of getting what he wants - a toy on a cardboard box, just out of arms reach, and he notices that if he hits the box, the toy moves. So he hits the box until the toy vibrates right over to him. This is really a wonderful thing to witness. I'm amazed by him everyday.

Baby Dangers

Dexter loves to play with the audio/video components and powertools!

Crawling!

Dexter has been "considering" crawling for quite a while, getting up on his hands and knees, rocking back and forth, but preferring to slither on his belly if he wanted to propel himself forward. Over the weekend, he began crawling for short periods - mostly to get himself to something that he could pull himself up to standing with - which he also started to do completely unassisted this weekend. Yesterday, he used crawling as his preferred means of moving across the floor and I caught some of it on video. Mommy is so proud.

Chicken Pad Thai

Between couch shopping, Wiggleworms, and a picnic with Elissa and Ian, this weekend Dexter's meals consisted largely of Swedish meatballs, sausage, pizza, and the tofu and noodles from my chicken pad thai. He's pooping like a champ.

Future Rock Star

Snot Bridge

I came home from work yesterday to find Daddy taking pictures of Dexter's "snot bridge". In this picture, Dexter looks like he's stumbling home after waking up in a gutter after a rough night out on the town. If you look closely, you can clearly see the snot bridge from Dexter's nose to his forehead.

This Is Not Right...

A friend posted her dream about us on Ben's Facebook wall (for those of you - like me - who don't know, the cruiser and the gold wing she mentions are motorcycles):

Tuesday night dream... Driving back from Indianapolis on the damn Ryan & see you riding a cruiser ahead of me. With a guitar in a gig bag over your shoulder. Then ahead of YOU is Jiffy riding a Gold Wing with Dexter in a car seat strapped to the bike. I think "this is not right" and wake up.