We got his picture taken for his birthday, and they turned out really well. We've been taking him to have his picture taken at Kiddie Kandids inside Babies R Us. They are really nice and produce great pictures that don't really cost all that much. No, I do not have a side job working PR for them. :)
We have been continuing solids with Myles. He is really enjoying it and is starting to lunge toward the food and try to steal the spoon. He's very entertaining. :) We're continuing cereal which so far appears to be his favorite "solid" but we've also started peas. He likes these too, but he's super picky about the temp of the peas. Not so much with the cereal - it can be stone cold and he'll still eat it. Hmmmmm.....
Yesterday we discovered that Myles is cutting his first tooth. I didn't notice this because of any of the "normal" reasons. I have a friend whose daughter is about Myles' age and her daughter is cutting two teeth, so I got curious and stuck my finger in there to feel around. Haha But I did discover a sharp thing on his lower gum and after further investigation, we found that there is indeed a tooth starting to emerge. Exciting! Not sure how this is going to effect nursing though...I predict this could be quite painful for me... But now that we KNOW Myles is teething, suddenly he is emitting buckets of drool. Was he just waiting for us to notice the tooth before starting to act like he's teething?
He's also started making some attempts at crawling. It doesn't really look so much like crawling, but he kinda face plants and then uses his legs to shove himself toward a toy that's out of reach. I don't know what's to call this since it's not exactly crawling and is kinda more like playing "wheelbarrow" with no partner. LOL
So....to try to include something non-Myles related (CLEARLY my entire world revolves around my son!), I thought I'd finish up this post with some funny tidbits of dealings with my middle school students in the past week. Both stories relate to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. since we were reading and watching some stuff about him this week to prep for his birthday.
Story 1: Brent walks into my classroom while we are reading a bio of Dr. King. He and I have a short conversation and then he leaves. A kid says, "Whoa! I didn't know you were married to him!" (Mind you, this kid has known both of us for quite a while AND knows both of our last names are Owens - duh.) Another kid hears him and turns around and yells, "OMG! You were married to Martin Luther King?!? AWESOME!" WOW. Ummmm....no. I thought the aide in my classroom was going to fall out of her chair at this point. Hahaha
Story 2: A different day, we were watching a video of clips of Dr. King. There was a clip of him walking at a rally wearing sunglasses. A kid says, "Dude! He totally looks like Kanye West!" I said, "Well, I'm not entirely sure Dr. King would've been flattered by that comparison." He didn't understand why. I finally ended with telling him that Kanye West is kind of a jerk and Dr. King was......not.
