Day 193: Atom at a Crawl!

 

No I didn't just recently find the upload video buttons on this blog...even if I did, and I am not saying I did, you have to admit it has been a video worthy few weeks. 

Eating solid food, drinking water, and crawling required more than just a still image if I was going to make an attempt at capturing the excitement around our house.

Don't worry in the weeks to come I will find a happy medium between my blah blah blah's and video renditions of his cha cha cha's. But in the mean time enjoy Atom in all his 24 fps glory, once again.

Day 187: Solid Food #2 - Yummy Peas

Atom had Peas for the first time this week. Yep we tried to tackle the Dennis Rodman of small pod-shape seeds. Unlike his last food, Bananas, Peas never were easy to swallow from Atom.

Damn you Peas! We will master you! One of these days when you least expect it, when you are sufficiently comfortable with your smug little self...you will go down!

As a side note, the voices you hear in the video are not a TV on in the background but my parents, brother and Atom's cousin Gannon watching via Skype. For my brother it was his first time meeting Atom (and doing a video chat) and it was pretty amazing to share Atom with him. Technology is my friend at times.

Day 181: Meaningful Babble

Atom, aside from his other tremendous accomplishments this week of entering into production on another tooth and eating solid food for the first time, started to put language and objects together.

Mind you he hasn't yet quite mastered English or object identification for that matter but he has been producing Baby Babble for a while now. However, now he sometimes will look at an object and start babbling like a tour guide in a museum.

Last night I handed him his elephant rattle/teether and his eyes lit up. He reached out with both hands (because why use one if the other one isn't busy), pulled elephant closer and then proceeded to babble me that "elephants are emotional creatures. Whenever they come across another elephant that has passed away they become visibly upset and appear to mourn the loss."

I told Atom that I DID know that and that I had actually ridden an elephant before in Loxahatchee, Florida at Lion Country Safari. He babbled to me "stop being a know it all".