My little genius

I recently listened to this podcast, called "Unstoppable Learning." It was full of very interesting information for someone who is a teacher and a the mother of a young child. Listening to the podcast led me to watch this TedTalk by Alison Gopnik about how babies learn. She compares a baby's mind to that of the most brilliant scientist. That perfectly sums up my amazement as I watch Ethan explore his environment. It is amazing to think about how it has only been 9 months since he was just a tiny, scrunched up, eating, sleeping, pooping machine. I feel so blessed to be watching him grow.

Here are a few pictures of my little scientist exploring the backyard. Doesn't he look like he is concentrating and trying to understand? 

3 months and 5 months

You may notice that a month is missing. That's because I'm a bad mom and never took a 4 month picture. The really embarrassing thing is that the reason I never took a 4 month picture is because we didn't have a white shirt, and I wanted it to match. Then, we got white shirts and life got really busy. Maybe I am a little bit OCD. However, there is no shortage of pictures of this little man, so I'll put up one that I think is close to 4 months.

I can't believe my little man is 5 months old. He is learning all kinds of new tricks. He can sit up for a few minutes at a time; he can roll all over the place (especially at night in his crib); he can sleep through the night (not that he does, but he's done it before!); he is full of belly laughs and big grins; he is starting to babble all kinds of sounds and he is trying really hard to crawl. We celebrated his first Christmas and he was baptized (those pics will be a separate post, if I ever get there). Needless to say, we sure do love our little man. It's hard to believe that we ever lived without him in our lives.