A picture is worth 1,000 words

Which means this post is worth 10,000 words!  Rather than telling the story, I'll let the pictures (and the captions) tell you all the things that are happening at the Wallace-Ferrin household:

In case there ever was a question, yes, Jayden is funkier than you.  And always will be.

Jayden decided napping was not his thing last week.  Over the four days he was at day care I think he slept a total of two hours.  That meant that he would pass out almost immediately in the car and stay passed out for a while after he got home.  This picture was from Friday night.

Saturday the three of us went to lunch and Jayden had "bone-cakes" and syrup.  He was pretty happy about that.  (In case anyone is worried and/or judgmental, he did eat veggie/fruit purees beforehand so it wasn't totally unhealthy.)

Jayden loves crawling up on the couch and then pointing at his books until  we give him one.  He then leans back in the pillows and goes through every one of his books (that he's interested in that day).

Being silly with the spoon.  Jayden is increasingly adamant about feeding himself.  He's really bad at it.  But he often has to have a utensil in each hand to dig at the food while I have a third utensil that actually conveys the food to his mouth. Luckily his forks/spoons are small and not so difficult to wash.

This is the newest most amazing development - he stands on his own without holding on to anything!  It's blurry because it's hard to take the picture that fast.  But you can tell he's so proud of himself every time he does it.  He's pretty unsteady, but even over the course of the day today he got better.  So amazing and fun to watch.

Pounding on the glass table in the living room.  We did not know when we bought it that it made such a good drum.

Jayden has also started kissing.  I tell him "kisses?" and he opens his mouth wide, sticks his tongue out and bangs his face into mine.  And often he puts a hand on either side of my head.  And then sometimes he starts chewing on my chin, which actually hurts quite a bit.  In any case, it's rather slobbery.
One of his bottom molars has popped through (on the right) and a molar on the left is working its way through, which means Jayden has been chewing on his fingers - and everything else- constantly over the past few days.  

Jayden has also started leaning back a lot.  This is him standing up with his back to the couch and then laying his head backwards onto the couch.  He does this on the stairs also.  It's also how he stands up sometimes - he'll just lean on something behind him to steady himself.

Not only into feeding himself, Jayden is also into drinking on his own.  He'll let me give him a little bit of milk and then he'll grab the cup with both hands, pull it to the opposite side and squeal at me.  Unfortunately he's still working on actually getting the liquid into his mouth.  In this picture the cup is upside down, so he's not actually drinking.  But I'm not touching the cup either, so that's all that matters to him.