This weekend the three of us took a walk to run some errands, and headed in the same direction that T & I went 9 months ago, the night before Luca arrived. This time, we bypassed the ice cream parlor and went for the toy store instead. Isn't it amazing what a difference 9 months makes? He's now been out as long as he was in...and in another 9 months, Luca will probably be talking us into both the ice cream and a toy, if he likes dessert as much as he likes everything else.
Since we last discussed his self-feeding skills, Luca has had a complete breakthrough which came about after we watched Lily Ward eating pasta on Riona's blog. Feeding our little Italian one of his native foods had never occured to us, but all of a sudden it made perfect sense. So at the next opportunity, we set a bowl of rotini in front of him and boy did he ever know what to do with it. Now he's grabbing up cheerios, puffs, broccoli, and bananas - and even snatching the noodles out of our soup bowls.
All of this chowing down has not translated into a bigger boy, though. In fact, our doctor told us this week that Luca is on the "skinny kid" trajectory. He weighed in at 19.5 lbs (just 1.25 lbs more than at 6 months) and is 28 inches long. The doctor isn't worried at all and said just to keep doing what we're doing because Luca is developing normally in every way.
Of course, we don't think there's anything normal about our favorite little man. This month he has figured out how to clap and wave at the right times and is very enthusiastic about it. He's a social baby; in the grocery store, he hollers from his post in the cart to all the passerby to get their attention. For now his conversation is limited mostly to "baaah! blaaah! pthththth," but when he says it, he means every word!
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