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This week, Eddie has been a really strange mix of Independence and klingy. He suddenly wants to feed himself....and while I'm not quite ready to clean up the messes that will entail, we compromise with this mesh feeder. I just throw a cube of food in there (last night was butternut squash) and let him go to town. He loves it! I also think it helps him work on his coordination, because he really focuses when trying to get it into his mouth....he touches it to his nose and then drags it to his mouth, which means squash all over his face! It's okay though, because he also likes to share, as you can see if the last picture. His new favorite game is giving me his paci (as in, putting it in my mouth) so I hold it with my teeth on the hard plastic part - he cracks up. We do it all day long...I'm sure people see this and think I'm crazy, but what can I say? I'm a sucker for baby laughs. And I'm teaching him to share! Haha. We are still working on the crawling and he has taken leaps and bounds this week. He really likes to try to crawl to jack, so I guess my theory on them not liking eachother is bust....at least on Eddie's end. I think it will suddenly happen one day, to the shock of me and Frank....the poor kid already spends most of his tummy time with his pants tucked into his diaper, so he can get some traction on the wood floors, because he hates doing his tummy time on the rug. I'm in for a doozy, here. His other new favorite activity is trying to pull himself up on everything - including Saddie. Poor dog. He is used to me giving him a little help when he goes from sitting to standing, so he is currently trying to pull himself up on his ball drop thing and looking at it like, 'come on! gimme some help, monkey!' Did I tell you about the stomping? He stomps all. the. time. This makes diaper changes especially difficult. And it also makes standing difficult, when you try to stand and stop at the same time. Eddie already takes after me, apparently...wanting everything at once :)

-maggie