When Engineers Have Babies...

One of the few items Matt insisted we purchase for our then-unborn baby was a jumper that could be hung in a doorway.  He became pretty insistent about it, so we got one.

Now that August is sitting up on his own, we decided to let him give the jumper a go.  We realized when we took it out of the box that it had to be hung in a door frame.  That meant that the only places it would work were in bedroom doorways, not at all convenient for hanging out with our little dude.  And what's the point of having an August in the house if you can't have him around all the time?

I thought the jumper would have to go back.  Matt thought otherwise.  If a door frame in the kitchen was what we needed, then a door frame in the kitchen was what we would have.

August was grateful for his daddy's ingenuity.

And fascinated by it.

August - Six Months

Happy six-month birthday, August!

Our little man is now closer to his birthday than to his birth day.

This was a huge month for August!  He started eating solid foods, and we haven't found one yet that he doesn't like.  His favorites are carrots, beets from our garden and bananas, but he also likes sweet potatoes, yogurt, kale, Swiss chard, avocados, pears...the list goes on.  We're so proud of our good eater.

August has also conquered rolling over this month.  He first rolled over from his back to his tummy the day we got home from Minnesota.  Now goes easily from back to belly and to his back again.  This is usually a good thing, until he finds himself on his belly in his bed and doesn't know what to do with himself.

This month, August has also started to sit up on his own and is so close to sitting strongly all the time.  We know it's a short trip from sitting strongly to crawling.  Matt still thinks that will be nothing but cute.

August has also been teething more than ever this month.  We think he still has a while to go before the first tooth cuts, though, so until then we're muddling through the loads of drool, bouts of crankiness and sleepless nights.  It's a good thing he's so darned cute.