Milestones

For folks who have children already the milestones Gabe are passing every day probably seem like old news. However, Casey and I are daily in awe of the way our baby is growing and changing. Never before have we experienced fostering such growth in a human being. A tiny being that we are soley responsible for raising up (in a human sense...we know God's really the one in charge). So, my apologies if his milestones bore you. To us, they are our among our greatest accomplishments.

Gabe has just passed another cognitive milestone. You can no longer hide an object (example...box of gummisavers belonging to his daddy) and expect Gabe to forget that it ever existed. Hidden objects are permanent and he can follow them to their hiding spot and claw and climb until he has retrieved them.

Casey was also especially impressed this evening with Gabe's ability to remember which button to push to make his phone light up.

"Look, Julie. I can hand it to him upside down and he can find the button. Here, look now. I can hand it to him backwards and he can still find the button!" -Casey

Smartest baby in the world, here. JK! Well, kind of....

Yummiest phone in the world.

Brown or Green? Green or Brown?

Greown? Broeen?

Hazel.

In other news, last night we ate at Chili's and I ordered a side of vegetables for Gabe. They brought out a bowl of broccoli and carrots. We gave him the broccoli to eat and his face went as sour as if we'd squeezed lemon juice in his mouth. I so wish I'd had a camera to capture the moment because his face really was priceless. The carrots however were well received. And the cheese quesadilla was very well received. Go figure.

Then, tonight we ate at Outlaw's Chophouse and did squeeze a lemon in his mouth and he didn't even flinch! And, getting him to eat some chicken and corn was challenging to say the least. He has taken to spitting out food he doesn't care for one tiny dropping at a time. Example: Give him a spoon of five kernels of corn and he will spit every single kernel out of his mouth one by one until they're all gone. It's really, really, really hard not to laugh at him. And, five minutes later, give him corn on a spoon and he will eat it up like he knows he won't be eating again for the next seven days. It's kind of like pulling the lever on a slot machine. Sometimes you lose your investment and other times you hit the jackpot with no real rhyme or reason between winning and losing.

Oh, what we have in store when he begins using words....