Ascending the Stairs

Video of John ascending the stairs with Daddy close behind him. (For our zoologist friends, those are zebras on his pajamas, not giraffes.)

Last night I was on the couch watching TV when John left his toys to crawl up in my lap and just sit there, leaning back against me. My heart melted! John was never a lap-sitter until within the last month or so because he was always on the go-go-go (unless I was wearing him in a sling).

As most of you probably know, John is not much of an eater yet, which is fine, but we do offer him solids daily. He absolutely refuses a spoon and will turn his head this way and that with lips clamped hard shut. (Nor will he self-feed with a spoon.) However, he really enjoys straws and likes having us fill a straw with a couple inches of water and stick it in his mouth to suck up. It's a fun game. Today at Chipotle, Chris got the idea to fill the straw with some guacamole. John has tried guacamole and plain avocado (both great first foods) in various formats and disliked them all. But he'd never tried it with a straw! John really liked eating guacamole out of a straw and probably ate ten little niblets of guacamole. That is a lot for this boy. Then at dinner, John ate two small hunks of garlic bread. Many of my La Leche League friends have babies who didn't truly take an interest in food until the tenth month, so I've been wondering this month whether John will soon increase his intake. (Of course, I also know several mamas whose healthy, well-growing babies didn't take an interest in solids until the middle of the second year, so who knows . . .)