Zander update

So Zander's been pulling himself up to stand on things for a few weeks. Monday was Doug's day with him and Zander pulled himself up on the couch and went for the remote, so Doug moved the remote and Zander walked along the couch to get to it. :-)

Zander is a speed crawler, he is on the move so fast.

He gives fives. You put out your hand and say "give five" and he does it -repeatedly. So I say "five, five, five, five". It's the cutest thing ever!

On Sunday one of Doug's grandma's was holding him and me and his other grandma were across the table and he demonstrated giving fives. So then me and and his other grandma clapped and said "yay". He looked at me and started clapping! I've never taught him clapping before, he just did it because we did it!

Poor kid really doesn't like food. I gave him some avocado for the first time on Sunday and he ate it, only making a little face. Then Monday I tried avocado again and he spit it out and whined about it. Tuesday we did a little bit more avocado with less of a fight. Tonight I boiled a sweet potato and mashed it and mixed in some breastmilk. I thought if I made it mushier he might like it better. Nope, he gagged 3 times and made plenty of faces. Vinnie liked the sweet potato though, I didn't want to waste any breastmilk nutrients - hahahha so I gave it to the dog.

Zander does love his little brown rice crispy cereals though.

Oh, and Zander got a hold of a quarter of a lime at my parents house yesterday afternoon and he shoved it right in his mouth and loved it. Wierd kid.

I feel like I'm not signing enough. We do MILK,DOG, waves hi & bye, and LOVE YOU. I try to do EAT when he eats and DRINK when he drinks. Since he loves the cats, and they actually let him pet them unlike Vinnie, I've been signing cat to him. He was so excited to pet Munky today he just kept looking back at me and I'd say "CAT" and do the sign. He was saying something like he was trying to say cat. He's so smart.