water baby

Bath time is just about the best time of the day. Miles loves getting naked for the bath. In fact, getting naked and the bath are our stall tactics to avoid any late evening melt-downs before bed. We've started bathing him in the kitchen sink since he outgrew the little baby tub. Putting him in the real tub is killer on the knees and back! Anyway, he has his little ducky and a couple other small floaties but his favorite "toy" is the sprayer. Months ago he started by staring at it, then he'd swat at the stream, now he's pulling at the nozzle to get it near his face. When we rinse his cheeks and chin he makes this funny "bitter beer" face. Guess we'll need to get one of these sprayers for when he's too big for the sink.


Miles got to meet Kate this weekend. Kate is 6 weeks old and I can't believe I've really forgotten what it was like to hold someone so small. I know Miles weighed eight pounds not that long ago but she seemed so little! Anyway, she's got a head full of black hair like her daddy. In fact, they had a picture of her daddy as a baby and wow! what a resemblance. Miles got to play on the floor with lots of "new" toys. Not wanting to lose his center-of-attention status, he rolled onto his belly and started to push up onto his knees!!!!

He is ready to be mobile and not much will stand in the way of this determined kid. Last night after we put him down, we listened on the monitor as he rolled around. Then all of a sudden this loud rrrrrrrkkkkkkkk sound started and it happened three or four more times. What in the world happened? Oh Miles had just worked his way to the top of the bed where his aquarium is attached and he was spinning the crab. From his belly he had pushed up on one arm so he could reach the spinners with the other. He did start the music on his own too! Unfortunately the aquarium is attached to the short side of the bed, so when he was done he was crammed up against the slats which he didn't like. But he went on to sleep after we straightened him out.