He's just so big

Wow, Luke is just getting bigger. When Shelley took him to his 6-month appointment, the Dr. said he was the weight of a 12-month old, the length of an 11-month old, and had the development of a 9-month old.

Well, that was a the day before Halloween. He hasn't gone backwards at all. Quite the contrary. We've got a couple of videos to post showing his development.

From Luke

You can see in this video that he can now get up to a standing position on his own with a low platform. This means he can now get into things and push buttons. We're trying to teach him the word "No", but he hasn't totally understood yet. We've been told that as soon as he learns the word, he'll know how to use it on us.

From Luke

Here is Luke taking a bath. He finds the plug and pulls it. He decides he wants to use it as a pacifier. He puts the metal holder in his mouth. Of course lately he wants to put anything metal in his mouth.

From Luke

Now this is the really scary video. This is the same bath as the previous video, but you can really see that he has gotten the assisted standing thing down. But what is really scary is that he knows how to turn up the water flow. It's hard to hear, but as he is turning the knob counter clockwise, the water is flowing faster. It used to be that when daddy would give him a bath, Luke would look at his hand and wonder how he got the water to flow faster. Now he's figured that out. What's the next thing he will figure out? I don't know if we're ready to find out.