An interesting time....

It's really cool watching Mercer's development. He has pretty much mastered his eye-hand coordination. He's able to look at something he wants to grab and can at least touch it or knock his hand into it. He's doing a good job of sitting up with assistance (a boppy pillow). He's trying to pull himself up from laying down to sitting -- but can't quite get there. You can see him exerting a lot of effort to work on it though. And he's "scooching" around a little bit to the side and back mostly. Todd had Mercer duty all weekend & I didn't get to play with him or hold him too much (b/c of the issue in my side). I think that's why I've been more attuned to what all he's been doing these past few days.

Todd switched out the car seats to a toddler carseat over the weekend. What I'm going to miss about not using the infant car seat anymore: if he falls asleep in the car, we can't just pull out the car seat with him in it and bring him inside or snap it into a stroller... we have to unbuckle him & take him out. My cousin Tracy loaned us a toddler car seat (we're using in Todd's truck) and we bought one for my car. It's huge - as you can see in this picture!

We pulled the mobile down from his crib because he could scooch down to it and batt / start to grab at the fish. They're supposed to be removed around 5 months because they can be a strangulation hazard. But, there are new things moving into the picture. Here's Mercer in an "exersaucer" thing that a neighbor loaned us. (Aren't those cute pj's he's wearing?!)

I had a pretty good day. I feel much better than I have the past few days, I've been enjoying Mercer's development, and I had a good day at work. I spent the better part of the day by the pond doing research -- learning about a topic that I think is interesting. I went to a meeting, then came back and continued to research and learn stuff. I will put this knowledge to use over the next two days -- judging a contest that architects and architecture students entered. That's one thing I like about the job: being able to do different things than I would get to do in any other job!

Oh yeah one other good thing today -- I saw a really intense yellow & black bird in the back yard. It landed on a coneflower that the petals had fallen off of and he was pecking at the flower... eating seed? (I guess it wouldn't be that unlike sunflower seeds.)

It's the small things!