The Rundown...

Here is a very quick, very brief list of the things that Caleb is now doing:

- pulling himself up on people from a prone position. He still doesn't pull himself up on furniture, but maybe that's because he doesn't ever want to get the furniture's attention.

- pull himself from his tummy into a sitting position.

- give "kisses." This mainly means that he will put his slobbery open mouth against whatever you put up to his face. It's really pretty gross, but I'm a mom. I love it. Until he practices on my nose, and decides that it's a better chew toy than kissing partner. My stitches should heal in two to three weeks.

- express himself more strongly. He doesn't speak in intelligible words, but what sounds he does know are strung together in sentence form and in the tone of voice that he is feeling most strongly. We were lectured about our lack of speed in getting him dinner the other night, and by golly if you couldn't almost understand him.

- spit raspberries. This is adorable until you realize that if you encourage him now, he may continue forever. I got a faceful of "macaroni and cheese dinner" the other day. Yum.

- try anything and every kind of food in the world. So far, there aren't any favorites. And to his momma's great joy, there aren't any least favorites, either!

- charm the socks off of anyone and everyone that crosses his path, be it child, adult, elderly or puppy. It's amazing.

Now, some of these things have been in place for a long time and I just haven't mentioned them. That's one of the things I continue to be lectured about. If one more person asks me if I have a scrapbook going, I may cry.

But they will be tears of joy that I am not ruled by the social mores thrust upon new moms across the globe...