On his own

We let Tesshin explore the world of baby food today. He's starting to grab the spoon out of our hands whenever we feed him. And he always tries to grab a hold of his feeding bowl, so we thought it should be time to let him hold a spoon and try feeding himself. We showed him how to dip the spoon in the bowl and then put it up to his mouth. We probably did that 5 times. Here's the results:

Oh boy...do we have a long way to go. I'm glad he only messed up his hands and face. A couple of nights ago, he was so fussy that he started to pull his hair while his hands were covered with Peas. Not fun for Mom.

Tesshin is also starting to pull himself up on his own a lot more. We were at Tessho's co-worker's house on Saturday night to visit and meet their new baby girl. They have a step between their dining room and living room. Tesshin was crawling around in the living room and started to make his way towards the step. I didn't think he could get up to the dining room but he proved me wrong. He put both hands on the step, lifted his right knee on top of it and then his left knee and BAM! he made his way over the step. I thought it was a fluke so I brought him back down into the living room. Not even 10 seconds later he got over the step again. Everyone was clapping. What a showoff!