Jeremiah is getting so big!

My baby just doesn’t seem like a baby anymore. Jeremiah is 8.5 months. He loves to be mobile. He has started to crawl, but has not yet perfected it. However, he has decided to give up crawling in an effort to start walking. He can now walk along the couch holding on to the edge and he can stand for a few second unassisted.

He also loves to eat. Jeremiah’s latest love is Cheerio’s. He is still a bit young for them, but I couldn’t resist his chubby, toothless grin. I tried it with just one and the rest is history. If it were up to him we would just forget the baby food and he would only ever eat Cheerios. In fact, it kind of ticks him off when I try to spoon feed him baby food. He just wants to do everything himself. Doesn’t he realize that mommy wants him to be little for a while longer??

The last post we have with updated pictures was from December. So here are a few to catch up..

January 2010

February 2010

March 2010

March 2010  1st pair of cowboy boots

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Adventures in Dissection

Brandon had his first dissection in Biology several weeks ago.  (it took me a while to post about it) It is so funny to think back at his past feelings about dissections vs his feelings now.  If you asked him last year, or even at the beginning of this year how he felt about the fact he would be doing it, he would have told you that it was gross and that he didn’t want to do it. But the weeks leading up to his first dissection, he was counting down the days!

D-day finally arrived (dissection day.) I can just see Brandon shaking his head at this corny joke. haha. Sorry Brandon. Anyway, I was able to snap some pictures. He was a little embarrassed that I came into his class to take pics, but I told him he didn’t have a choice. I tried to snap a few shots and leave, as not to embarrass him too bad. Later that day, after the dissection was over he asked my why I didn’t stay and take pics of the whole thing. I guess I missed “the best part.” Can’t win

After the dissection was over a couple of kids got to make a clay model of what they learned. Here is Brandon and Artie’s model.  As a side note - Brandon is doing so, so good in biology! He is the youngest in his class and it is a class geared at 9th grade and above. He really seems to like it, especially now that they have started to do the dissections. In class they often have verbal quizzes and review tests. Brandon has been nicknamed “textbook” because he seems to always know the answer.A nickname that he is proud to have.

After dissections, Brandon called me over to snap a couple of pictures of his clay model. After taking the picture, he accidentally knocked my camera out of my hands and it broke! Yes - it broke! Sigh. Luckily I was able to get it repaired and now I will be able to take many more embarrassing pictures of Brandon in class. Life is good!

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