Andrew the...scholar?

Now that Andrew is crawling, the entire apartment has become his playground. At least, all the parts that we don't cut him off from before he can get there. We spent much of this weekend baby-proofing the apartment--at least as much of it as can be done. This bookshelf has been safely secured to the wall to prevent him from tipping it over. Of course, short of gluing all the books to the shelves I'm not sure how we're going to prevent future episodes of this:


Andrew is the perfect embodiment of entropy. If a basket is full of toys, he takes them out. If a bucket is full of blocks, he dumps them out. If a shelf is full of books....

One of these years we're going to have to teach him about putting stuff away. I don't look forward to trying to get him to clean up his room.

Get a move on!

I know it's been too long since the last blog post. To Andrew's loyal fans, we apologize. You can blame Greg and Carrie's busy schedule over the past couple of weeks.

Some major developments on Andrew's part in the past week, which you can see demonstrated in his latest video. Sorry it's a bit of a long one, but I thought it merited some celebration.



Since learning to crawl, Andrew has definitely been happier with his lot. I always knew he would be--he's loved standing since he was a month old; loves to cruise around while holding onto his play table, the couch, or our hands; and of course he's always loved swings or getting waved around or tossed in the air by us. He still sometimes whines as he's getting going (almost like he forgot he can move at first), but now that he can get over to the next item that he wants to investigate (i.e. grab and stick in his mouth), he is quite pleased with himself.

Of course now this means that Carrie and I are going to be spending a bit of time this weekend baby-proofing the apartment. Our fall-back position is to just put him in a cage. I mean a gated baby play area. ;)

10 months!

And a few days, of course because I can never seem to get to taking the photo on the correct day anymore. For comparison to prior photos here.

At 10 months, Andrew seems to be chomping at the bit to walk. He loves cruising around while holding on to our hands, and is happiest when he is standing at his play table or our coffee table grabbing at the TV remote or similar items inappropriate for babies.

His favorite food is waffles, which he now gets to eat for breakfast most mornings. He does a pretty good job grabbing most foods we put on his tray these days--eggs, peas, tofu, cantaloupe, avocado--although not all these foods will stay in his mouth once they get there. He is a big fan of spitting out things he doesn't like....

He is actually making overtures towards crawling, despite my predictions that he never would. He is definitely a monkey, and refuses to sit still when he's on our lap. He'll do his best to clamber all over the place, and would happily dive off the couch if he were given the chance. He's going to be quite a handful once he's mobile!

Splish splash

I get soaked, and Andrew gets his last bath in the sink!

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