Catching Up

It's been a busy week or two! As we posted earlier, Calvin was baptized last week. The blessing of this was that we had both my parents and Matt's mom and husband here for a long weekend. Calvin was in seventh heaven with all the attention. For whatever reason, my pictures of him with Donna and my dad turned out pretty poorly, but here he is hanging out with Grandpa Gary and his Nana.


And then they all left town and he was stuck with us! It was an interesting week ... he developed a runny nose the day after they left and just kind of fell apart a bit in his post-grandparent letdown. Lucky mama was with him all week as he went through his withdrawals ;). But even Calvin's fussiness is practically nothing. Here he is giving us cuddles.


One morning I put him in the laundry basket with the clean diapers and pushed him around the apartment thinking that he would probably love that. Not really ... he just gave me the "what on earth are you doing?" look. The only part he liked was when Henry walked by. Fail.

And he discovered the toy box! I think his goal here was not access to the toys as much as trying to get the basket into his mouth.

He's been much more interested in sitting up lately so we have started propping him up with the pillow. That way we don't constantly have to sit with him and he can see what happens when he leans too far one way or another.

And the newest thing ... getting up on all fours and rocking! He can't quite get up himself yet, but when we prop him up he can rock back and forward. When he gets tired, he puts his head down ... absolutely adorable, really quite clever, and funny every time.

And a video of his efforts ...


In other news, Matthew has just started teaching his first class at Fuller Seminary on Christ and Culture. He has 25 students and meets twice a week for two hours. Today was his first day and so far so good! And I am busy busy at church gearing up for Holy Week and Easter. Things here good!