there was a food festival (The Taste of Marietta) up there last weekend. I walked up with some neighbors. We are weaning Mercer off of baby food for the most part (it maybe consists of 25% of his diet still)... but I was not adventuresome enough to give him the spicy food I had from a local Cajun restaurant. The little guy is definitely getting to be a fussier eater and will turn some things away - as he did last weekend when up at "the Taste." 
I had made some sweet potato puree for him, but he was not interested. I had to resort to the only other "not horrible / but not that healthy" food on hand -- Fig Newmans (Paul Newman's version of Fig Newtons). He LOVED them and devoured several. Mercer is not the neatest eater, as you can see.Not a whole lot is happening here. I am finally feeling somewhat caught up after working a lot this past month.... finally feeling a little bit more relaxed. (Could be b/c I'm spending a lot more time in the back yard with the sound of the water trickling into the pond. I was working on the back porch last week and a huge bird was preening himself in the stream. I looked it up, but am not sure if this is what it is... It's not really the right zone for this bird, but the "call" is the same. http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Northern_Goshawk/id Others in the neighborhood think it's a Coopers Hawk, but it looks really different and I got a pretty good look while it was bathing in the stream for several minutes. He lives in a tall pine tree next to our yard -- and "defends" our yard when other reddish/brown hawks comes near. It's actually pretty cool to watch. (ps - Mercer went nuts when I was playing the bird sounds. He really responded to this one... I think he's familiar with it!)
A few other things that Mercer is doing now -- says "bubble", sort of sounds like he says "what's that" - but slurred, and he says "hi" and "bye" at somewhat appropriate times (and will say it to strangers now -- he grabs a lot of attention!) He also chatters....."whazzzy...wass... whizzy.... wuze... wat" - DEFINITELY has learned W's and Z's and wants to express that a lot! But, if he ever gets a hold of our house phone, he'll put it to his ear and say "Kak, cuk, kek" those types of sounds. (Do we sound like that on the phone?!) He also is able to hear the train whistle in the background (trains pass through Marietta a lot) and he says "too-too" his version of Choo Choo. Cool that he knows the sound now and can identify it.
He's been eating more with a spoon. Very messy, but every now and then he can make it to his mouth. It's pretty amazing to watch his development!
I think that's about all. Have a great weekend.
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