Saturday, August 16, 2008

eight months old!

milo gives being eight months old a thumbs way up!

these are crazy times in our household. for anyone who doesn't already know, we are planning to move to texas at the beginning of october to live for seven months in the apartment on my parents' property. we are really excited about it but have to do lists of what needs to be accomplished before we go that go out the door.

meanwhile, milo just keeps changing daily before our eyes. his third and four teeth are coming in right up top, which has made him unusually grumpy these past few weeks. everything he can get his chubby little handrs on goes right in the mouth to be rubbed against the top gums. no one ever buy any toys for this kid, please! he goes right past his toys to play with the empty plastic water bottles and empty cardboard boxes. mama's sunglasses are another favorite; he loves to pull them right off of my face and into his mouth.

speaking of things going into his mouth, we are extremely lucky because milo has liked every food that he's tried so far. here he is patiently waiting for his dad to feed him some mashed up pinto beans at a mexican restaurant:

a short list of just some of the foods he's tried (and liked!) so far: avocado, plums, peaches, bananas, applesauce, apricot sauce, corn tortilla, brown rice cakes, nopalitos, black beans, pinto beans, mild guacamole, pineapple, tamale, sweet potatoes, hash browns, tomato, corn, and a half dozen other fruits and vegetables. we did learn the hard way a few weeks ago that while he loves to eat edamame beans with his mama, his body doesn't actually break them down, just digests them whole. so we won't be making that mistake again!

milo has been getting a lot of rides from his dad, as usual:

and our friend shantelle took this wonderful picture of milo on my shoulders on the day of matt's and my combined birthday party:

he's growing up so quickly! we can't wait to find out what the next month will bring.

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Saturday, July 26, 2008

crawling!

i haven't taken many pictures of milo in the last few weeks, but we have taken a few videos, because milo is finally learning to crawl!

here is a sample of his new skill. the password is "milo":

milo is crawling from joannalovesyou on Vimeo.

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Tuesday, July 8, 2008

seven months old!

milo turned seven months old yesterday!

he has hit so many developmental milestones in the last months that i'm not sure i'll be able to remember them. let's see: he can sit up on his own, which is the most exciting for us, and when he could finally do it for more than 10 seconds at a time, we took a lot of photos.

he's added a lot of new foods to his repertoire. stone fruit like peaches continue to be his favorite. here he is covered in plum:

most days i don't even bother putting a bib on him, because he gets it all over his clothes, anyway, so the bib is just one more thing we have to wash.

his most recent favorite food is sweet potatoes. he can't get enough! i mix mashed sweet potato with a little rice cereal and breast milk and he gobbles it up.

milo still doesn't like being on his belly as much as he likes to stand and "walk" between our outstretched legs. his dad and i keep joking that he'll be the first baby in the history of time to walk before he crawls.

milo's favorite thing in the whole world is being outside. if he starts fussing, we can get him to stop almost immediately by taking him outside. here we are at the farmers market, where milo loved sitting on the carpet in the sunshine, people-watching.

last week, i found out that my very closest friend in the world, melissa, was diagnosed with cancer. it's treatable, and once she has finished treatment, she will have beaten it forever, which is a huge relief for those of us who are on the opposite side of the world from where she is currently living, in japan. she has started to undergo treatment, and i shaved my head in support of her. here is a photo of milo and i from saturday night, two baldies:

although milo is having some teething pain these days, he's still such a happy baby and a total joy to be around. his personality is so positive and cheerful, and when he sets his mind to something, he pursues it relentlessly until he reaches his goal. we love these qualities about him, but of course it's a little frustrating when his goals run counter to ours, like when he wants to reach the silverware on the table and we have to move it further and further away from him.

we can't wait to see how his personality evolves from these early traits. he's so much fun.

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Monday, June 9, 2008

six months old!

milo is six months old!

we took this photo of him on saturday at cannon beach, or.

i will probably say this dozens of more times in his life, but this is my favorite age yet. he's happy all the time! he's even teething and he only complains about it for about ten minutes a day.

happy half-birthday, milo!

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Monday, June 2, 2008

happy birthday, granddad!

this is a big week: milo's granddad is having a birthday tomorrow, and this saturday, milo will be six months old! six months, we can hardly believe it.

it's also a big day for me: as of this morning, i have lost all of my pregnancy weight plus ten pounds. i am fitting into pants that i haven't worn since we moved to portland! hooray!

milo is so close to being able to sit up and to stand unsupported. he can do both for a few seconds at a time and then needs to hold onto our fingers or lean back against us.

he's also eating solids a few times a week now. milo's new favorite post-nap activity is to sit in my lap while i eat a peach or nectarine, and then he sucks on the pit while i hold it. he also likes very ripe (almost over-ripe) banana and avocado, and this morning, he tried iron-fortified brown rice cereal for the first time (mixed with breastmilk) and he loved it. he's becoming such a big boy.

here are a couple of photos from the last few weeks:

milo helping matt play scrabble:

milo snuggling up to me on the couch:

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Wednesday, May 14, 2008

5 months!

milo is five months old! we're starting to notice that his new skills and abilities are harder to tick off when people ask, because they're much more subtle and you wouldn't notice unless you spent every hour of every day with him like we do.

for instance, milo has started to cuddle. it used to be that when we had him against our chests, he'd have his chest and neck erect, always trying to take in his surroundings. he still does this, but now he will also snuggle against our shoulders and nuzzle our necks with the top of his head. i can't express how wonderful it feels to receive voluntary affection from him.

the other new development is that milo has shown a lot of interest in our food lately. here is a picture of milo trying to get his dad's dinner into his own mouth:

we suspected that he wasn't developmentally ready to add solids yet, but we decided to give it a spin just to see, so here is milo having his first taste of avocado:

i put it on his lips and the tip of his tongue, and he smacked it a little, but wasn't able to swallow it, so it's still too early! we'll keep trying, since the interest is definitely there.

two weeks ago, our whole family went with a group of friends to volunteer at lighthouse farm sanctuary, which is a farm for animals that have been rescued from abusive situations. mostly this involved matt carrying milo around in the carrier while i cleaned out chicken coops and petted the animals. it was a wonderful way to spend a saturday and we'll definitely make this a regular trip. here is milo at the farm getting hugs from one of his favorite pals, katie:

milo is taking two naps a day now. the first is in the morning when his dad "dances him down," which means that they listen to music and dance until milo falls asleep, and then they both move to the couch and milo sleeps on matt's chest. (let's be honest: matt usually takes a nap then, too, as well he should!)

here they are just as milo is waking up:

then in the afternoon, milo and i take a nursing nap, which means that we both get into bed and he nurses until he falls asleep. i look forward to this all day, because it means that my work day is over and i get to just enjoy snuggling against him for a couple of hours.

now that it's springtime, milo is wearing sunhats when we leave the house to keep the sun off his head and out of his eyes. here's a photo of him in a freakishly coordinated outfit. none of these items was purchased together! they were all gifts or hand-me-downs.

that adorable dinosaur onesie is a new gift from his grandmom and granddad and he's already worn it many times! thanks, grandmom and granddad!

finally, here's a photo of milo from this past friday when we met some friends for after-work snacks and drinks. milo is being held by our friend michelle and he's totally enthralled with michelle's daughter ruby, who is three:

ruby is going to be teaching milo all sorts of things soon, both good and bad, i'm sure. milo is lucky.

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Sunday, April 27, 2008

twenty weeks old

no time to write an entry these days (or to do much of anything online, as the 147 emails in my inbox can attest to), but here are some recent photos of milo enjoying the springtime.

milo is getting better at his rolling over skills, and sometimes bellytime turns into back time:

we had dinner with our friend erin and she showed us her pictures from her visit to japan:

milo loves hanging around naked before his bath time:

jason was in town for a few days and we had a wonderful visit and milo loved getting to spend time with his uncle:

matt took this very sweet photo of milo last week:

and then our friend katie took many photos of us today after we had brunch. (yes, my hair is bright pink, get over it.)

(just one more reminder that these are only a small portion of the photos that we take of him and the rest are available on flickr, but you need to have a user account and to have us add you as "friend" or "family" for you to see them. we get many emails requesting more photos of milo, and that is the best way
to see them as i upload photos almost daily but don't have the time to write blog entries very often these days. there is a detailed explanation in the last entry of how to get a flickr account.)

milo's favorite thing to do right now is to hang upside down. when we turn him upside down, he cackles and coos. there is a good chance that his first word will be "again," because every time i turn him upside, i say: "again?" and then do it again, so he probably thinks that "again" means: "this is the greatest thing in the world!"

we are trying to cherish these few months before he learns to crawl because he is just so easy. he's happy doing almost anything and it's easy to take him anywhere. we know that won't last for too much longer!

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