Although I envisioned crawling to be something involving knees and hands, Jack of course has modified the traditional crawl into something a little more free-form and interesting. View his latest video here

I set him down on the living room floor this morning and he is all over the place. He’s still pulling himself up on everything that holds still enough (including Lucca), but he’s less successful with the bouncy chair, mostly because it rocks. He tries to get up but his feet won’t stay under him:



Needless to say he’s two seconds away from getting into trouble or hurting himself. I’ve carted him off to Grandma Gloria’s for the day while we (hopefully) get our air conditioner fixed. It was very cute, when she came to get him he held his arms out to her. I don’t even think he does this to me unless I’m rescuing him from crib jail.

Yesterday he got to spend some time with my mom. (My dad was there too, but you’ll notice he’s not featured in the pictures. Neither am I.) It’s actually quite amusing to see her with him – nothing in the world exists outside this little guy for her. She fed him some yams at lunch and he quite enjoyed himself.



Here I believe he’s telling her “You’re going a little slowly with those yams, lady. Can you speed it up a bit?” He is a wonderful eater, but very opinionated about when the food should arrive at his mouth. Like right now, thank you very much.



He was exhausted from all the attention and promptly passed out in the car:



Some wise person once told me not to invest too much in baby toys – regular household items will often suffice. Although he does like some of his toys, the two things that always make him happy are the phone and a piece of paper. Here you can see him at his happiest – both toys within reach and no one pulling them away from him:



As I mentioned Jack is away today. Our air conditioner is just not cutting it – yesterday afternoon it wouldn’t cool any lower than 86 degrees. I think we’re going to have to replace the entire thing, which is probably a good idea because our heater doesn’t work either. I guess they have a combined unit they can install that will save us a some money on our electric bill.

It’s so hot here – already 104 and not even 10 a.m.