Start of November

Townes has definitely started becoming more vocal with his squeals and moans, I guess he's just experimenting with different sounds. He's also still gaining better coordination and can grab things and flip over easier. He's figured out that when he shakes his rattle that he is the reason it makes a sound, he'll shake the rattle and smile.

Townes also has started to notice Lilly more and sometimes tries to reach out to touch her. He seems really interested in Lilly, and Lilly seems really disinterested in him; their love is not reciprocal.

Townes got another around of vaccines the other week. It's a pretty sad thing to witness, one moment he's laying on the table all content and smiling at you, then WHAM, he's squealing like a stuck pig. He weighs 17 lbs 11 oz.

Townes gets a kick out of his Montgomery Biscuits stuffed animal. When he laughs it's one of those deep toned, huh-huh...huh-huh, laughs. Kind of like Butthead on "Beavis and Butthead".

As far as music we listen to Jazz and the "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" album in the mornings, Townes also really likes the rap version of Hickory Dickory Dock on his nursery rhyme album. I might need to play him some Tribe Called Quest to see if he likes it.

Townes really likes to fly now. Right before we put him in the bath I hold him over my head and fly him around the room while he's naked. Even though I feel like I'm risking a pee shot to the face every time I hold him up, he loves it and always has the biggest grin.

* For those of who who can't tell, Townes is dressed as a Peep (that horrible sugar coated marshmallow candy) in the third picture

First Weekend of October

The last time Townes went to the doctor, the doctor said that he could feel some teeth below Townes' gums. Although I'm sure he's several months away from actually having teeth, maybe this explains his increased drools and wanting to suck on things.

Townes is beginning to become evermore "squirmy". Alot of the time he doesn't want to be held, and would rather lay on the floor where he can kick his legs and wiggle around. He'll flip over on occasion, and one time while on his stomach he slid across his mat while moving his legs. He continues to improve on grabbing things. Townes is also laughing more noticably. Especially this moring when Emily was playing with him, he was chuckeling alot.

We started him on rice cereal a few weeks ago. It took him a while to get use to it, but now he kills it down. I now know why our Diaper Champ was such a valuable purchase, since Townes started eating rice cereal he's been dropping some horrific bombs as of late.

* Auburn- Not much to say here, I guess I just need to find something else to do with my Saturday's. I'm about as disenfranchised with Tuberville as Bama fans were with Shula. I feel that we need to blow the whole program up and start all over. The offense is beyond pathetic, our quarterbacks are terrible, and all the penalties on the offensive line are inexcusable. I don't know what the answer is, I just know that our players are not as bad as they've been performing.