Friday, October 17, 2008

It's only a matter of time...

Gunnar is already constantly up on his hands and knees or tippy toes rocking back and forth...boo hoo, I can't believe how quickly it's happening this time. He doesn't even know how to sit up on his own yet and I think he'll be crawling in the next week or two!!! It is pretty darn cute though especially when it looks like he's doing little baby push ups! He also sits in the little high chair seat that we had for Ashton that attaches to our counter and he LOVES it. Give him a couple of measuring spoons and he's happy for a good 10-15 minutes. He still just stares down our food every time he sees us eat and is really reaching for our plates now too. So, so different than Ashton who never did that and who never fed himself a single thing till he was about 13 months old! And when we would try to put a cheerio or anything like that in his mouth he would gag and throw up! I rememer the first time he actually put food in his own mouth (it happened to be a little piece of enchilada) I cried! I was so excited to see him finally feed himself!

(here he is at Gunnar's age :)It was nice however that he never put anything else in his mouth for us to worry about him choking on. That will be hard with Gunnar to have to really pay attention! Especially now with all of Ashton's toys. We really need to be going through everything and putting away anything with little tiny pieces. I can see it in his eyes when he watches Ashton that he just can't wait to follow him around and play with him-it's so cute! He gets so excited and just stares and him and smiles all day.
This was so cute the other day...Gunnar was sitting up at the counter and Ashton came up and sat by him and shared his beloved "lovey" with him!Here's Gunnar sitting up more in his little tub too-Ashton was "helping" us bath him...(dumping water over his head) his hair is looking really red in this picture!

2 comments:

horsehug said...

Gunnar is sOOO cute doing his little pushup!
And that picture of Ashton sharing his Lovey with Gunnar is so precious!! Wow! That means more to Ashton than any other possession of his ever I think. I am so proud of him :)

His Wyoming Grandma :)

Jody said...

Jess,

It looks like you have already reached your goal of being an amazing mom.. What a great example you are. Your boys are adorable and they look alike. When you put up the picture of Ashton at a younger age it looks like Gunnor. What cute names by the way.. I am so glad that we can now keep in contact. Thanks for doing the tag. Jenna my youngest was born April 17. She can sit up kindof and she doesn't try to crawl yet, but trys to kindof worm herself around. Imagine this she is on her back and pushes off the floor with her feet and arches her back and can move anywhere. Totally weird.. It is so sad how fast they really grow up.. Enjoy them..