A Few Favorite Things

Calvin has a few new favorite things.

1. Sitting up. Today Calvin entertained himself nicely for 25 minutes while sitting up. He kept his balance without falling over while playing....such a big guy!

2. The dragonfly teething toy. This is the first toy that Calvin has demonstrated a strong preference for. Even though he was surrounded with toys here, every time he dropped the dragonfly, he tried to get it back. Pushing it further out of the way while reaching for it, he then whimpered until I pushed it back within reach.

I think this proves that Calvin has very sophisticated tastes in toys. This toy is very versatile: you can bite it, you can turn it and bite it, you can switch it to the other hand and bite it, and you can flail it in your hand before biting it again.

3. Cantalope. Woah, the display Calvin puts on while eating cantalope is pretty incredible. He ate it for the first time yesterday, and each bite was followed by "words," flapping arms, and kicking. He also enjoyed the "smoothie" version where it was mixed into yogurt.


(I don't have a picture of Cal eating Cantalope, so here is a cute one of him praying with Dan. He is so sweet when we pray....he stops moving around and just listens. Sometimes he looks up at us and just watches.)


I also have a few (not new) favorite things:

1. Hanging out with Calvin. While feeding Calvin at bottle, he needs a few breaks to get refocused. This is often what we do.



2. Watching Dan hang out with Calvin. Calvin sure likes his Daddy.


3. Dan.......don't have a recent picture, so I'll put Calvin instead....he looks a lot like Dan.