Eddie is really taking more opportunities to perfect his new skill of standing. He has discovered the stairs and can now pull himself up onto the one step in our foyer that leads to the staircase. It is such a cool process to watch him learn a skill that seems so simple and innate to us as adults. As he gets into kneeling position, he brings one knee up into a forward lunge and then pulls himself up to be completely standing. It is almost as if you can see the brain neurons firing and the muscles getting acclimated to this new body position. Note, we just watched "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button;" Brad Pitt did an amazing job acting like an old man acting like a child.
Anyway, the other skill that I love to watch the details and intensity of is his eating. He is now eating mostly finger foods since he seems to really prefer feeding himself. And it is such a joy to just sit there and watch him eat - to watch as he figures out now to get tiny morsels like peas and cubes of bread and shredded cheese from the tray to his mouth. It is truly an art form. He probably only gets the food straight to his mouth about 1 in 5 times (although it is improving rapidly), and so the other times the food either falls into his lap or somewhere below (thank you Marty) or gets stuck somewhere on his hand or arm. When this happens he uses his mouth to search it out, by sucking along his arm. I think I could watch him eat Cheerios all day. The little crunch they make as he chews them is so cute. I will have to film this soon to share with all of you.
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