Happenings...

So, it's been a few days of firsts around here.

1. Yesterday Eric had solid food for the first time. He's been making like he's starving lately and his growth has dropped off and being only 3 days short of being six months old, (the age that doctors now recommend starting babies on solids), I decided to take the plunge. As it is with all babies, he was not enamored with the rice cereal the first go around, nor on the second time today. But I'm sure he'll soon be gobbling like it's going out of style.

2. We bought a new table today at IKEA. We have been using the table Darrel had prior to our marriage. While it is a perfectly nice table it's rather smallish and hard to fit more than two people if you want to actually serve the food on the table. So, we ended up going to the complete opposite end of the spectrum and buying a gi-normous table. My mom joked that it would serve our family for many years to come, and I said yes, we'd have to have A LOT more kids to outgrow the 10 people that it can seat. (Darrel is laying on the table for demonstration purposes only, we don't normally recline on the kitchen table.) As you can see, it's pretty darn long, and that's WITHOUT the extra leaf. Now we'll just have to save up for chairs so we can seat everyone!

3. Jack said his own name for the first time today. He pointed at Darrel and said Daddy, pointed at me and said Mommy, and pointed at himself and said, "Ja". What a smart lad! It was highly cute, and we tried to get him to repeat it but nope, no go. You know, you really have to be vigilant as a parent to catch all these developmental things. Children like to throw them out there like little bones. You think you are teaching them but really they are training you. "Hmmm, let's see, if I say "Ja", they'll clap and laugh, say I'm the smartest boy ever, and hang on my every move for the next 20 minutes, what else can I make them do?"