Leaps and Bounds

This last month Charles has grown so much. To start off he is gaining strength and balance. He can now stand on Dad's hand and keep his balance.

Along those same lines he has been able to stay sitting up while playing. He doesn't fall over too much and can kinda catch himself when he does. He still can't quite sit up on his own though. He's become an expert at rolling over now too. He doesn't crawl yet, but he gets around by rolling to where he wants to go. He's close to crawling though. He holds his head up really high and tries to pull himself with his hands, but hasn't figured out how to get his feet under him yet.

He also enjoys playing at the pool with his sister. When we went to the beach and the water was too cold for him, so all he'd do when he got his feet wet was cry. We went to a wave pool where the water was warm enough for him and he played for hours until he finally fell asleep, he even played in the waves.

Charles has even gone from only drinking mommy's milk to eating anything and everything. He has gotten to the point where we can't shovel food in fast enough. Giving him time to breathe between bites is too much time and he'll start fusing for more food. Some of his favorite foods are bananas, squash, crackers, fruitloops and whatever everyone else is eating if we grind it up for him. He even attempted to eat his high chair once. He also has learned to drink from bottles, sippy cups and straws. Drinking from straws is quite a feat too, it's Adahleigh's cup and for some reason it doesn't breathe very well so it becomes pressurized. The worst thing about the straw cups is once the pressure gets to high they squeal to release the pressure and of course we take these to church and everyone can tell when Adahleigh is drinking from them.

On the way home Charles was getting restless so we gave him a red vine and he went to town. There wasn't any bits of it left after we stopped. We had a nice mess to clean up, but he really enjoyed himself.

Charles has also become a toothed child. He got one tooth, and then two days later a second one popped through and man can he bite, he makes you say "Charlie bit me and it really hurt". You can see both his teeth in the second picture.

His greatest accomplishment is flying a space shuttle, just at Evergreen Aviation and Space Museum though (more to come of this adventure in late posts).