09.21.11 - Happy Half-birthday, Tommy!

Tommy! You're six months old today! What do you think about that?!!

09.20.11 - Manners

Tommy uses his bib to wipe his mouth after his first bite of green beans. Don't think he stayed this clean through the entire meal!

09.19.11 - Tasty toes

Between green beans and formula, Tommy's favorite thing to eat is his toes!

09.18.11 - Get outta my face!

Tommy clearly didn't like this puppy kiss, which may or may not have been instigated by a bit of peanut butter strategically placed on his nose!

09.17.11 - Rice cereal

Tommy tried his first bowl of rice cereal tonight and he ate. every. bite. Maddie and Nate both spit a lot out and managed to get a lot on their bibs. Tommy gobbled it all down and then squawked quite a bit when we took him out of the high chair.

"He's your son," Angie noted. "He likes to eat."

09.16.11 - Hands full

The reaction from most people upon hearing that we have three under three is, "Oh, my! You've got your hands full."

Indeed. And this is only 2/3 of the brood.

09.15.11 - Good students

Angie pays close attention to Karen, Tommy's vision teacher from Rainbows, during a home visit this morning. I don't know that we've ever officially announced on this blog that Tommy has been diagnosed with ocular albinism, mostly because it's a fairly new diagnosis and we don't know much about it and how it will affect him. Some cases are so severe that eyesight is only correctable to 20/200, some require surgeries and some yet need no correction at all. We've noticed Tommy to be tracking more in the last few weeks and Karen today didn't hesitate in telling us that she thought he'd have just a mild case with his biggest issue being light sensitivity (thus the shades you've seem him sport in a few photos). Nevertheless, we won't know exactly how well he can see until he's old enough to tell us. That doesn't mean we're going to set back and not be proactive.