Brennan

A few recent updates on Brennan:

He has yet to meet a food that he's not willing to eat. The fact that he still only has his two bottom teeth has kept us from trying to give him as much finger food as we might like, but recently we've more or less been moving forward despite his lack of teeth. So far that only includes rice puffs, rice crackers, random small pieces of fruit (grapes, blueberries, mango, etc.), but as of tonight was expanded into bread and pieces of cheerios. Though he loves his regular food, he continues to show more interest in grown-up food, so we're hoping to continue to expand his finger foods over the next month or so. He's having mango in the video below, and if it's not obvious, he's basically dying to be fed. He only does this with actual food, not puffs or his 'baby' food.

The past few days he's been gnawing on everything and drooling like crazy, so he's likely to have another couple of teeth in the not so distance future.

He's trying his best to get on the move, but so far he's been relying strictly on his barrel-rolling ability. If he's in the right mood and you leave the room for a minute, he'll be 10 feet from where he started. While non-lateral movement has been slow going, he's definitely started trying more. Most of the time he's moving forward from sitting up on his tush to lying down on his belly. In between he's up on his arms and his knees for a second, but hasn't figured out how to stay there for much longer. Otherwise, he spends much of his time on his side, one arm propping himself up, one arm extended, trying to sit up. Not much luck there either so far, but he'll get there eventually.

He absolutely hates having his face wiped, but loves having his nose sucked. So weird. Not sure if testosterone leads to some inherent desire to be dirty or what, but saying he absolutely hates it might even be an understatement. And he's developing quite a bit of a temper too...based on the fits we've seen the last month or so, we can't say we're looking forward to his terrible twos. That said, he tends to reserve his fits for 1) when you try to wipe his hands or face, and 2) you take something he's playing with and/or chewing on. All in all he's still a sweet, good natured, lovable little guy, just terribly passionate about his toys and facial cleanliness. (The video gives a little taste, but in this instance his squeal rates as a 2 on a scale of 1 to 10 of overall pissiness. So multiply this squeal by 5, take away the smile, and add a dash of anger and you'll get the picture.)

Editor's Note: Theresa is concerned that some of you may think we sit around listening to Hootie and the Blowfish, so I promised to specify that the background music is simply a product of a random radio station, and not by choice.