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Gage is all over the place these days. His crawl has turned into a gait, and I will not be surprised at all to see him standing up one of these days. He just knows that he has to try to keep up with his big brother. And now it is exactly how I predicted it would be: I'm running around the house disciplining one child and wiping up spit-up from the other...and hustling to get there before he crawls right through it.

I think that these pictures were actually taken to capture him sitting up, which preceded the crawling. It's amazing how quickly they pick this stuff up!

We started with rice cereal about three weeks ago, and now we're feeding him barley cereal. I tried to give him some banana during our picnic at the park today, but he was actually more hesitant about it than I thought he would be.

The mess is amazing, isn't it? Gavin likes to watch this whole thing, and he even wanted to feed Gage himself the other day. I think that it's probably a relief for him to see someone making a bigger mess than he makes at mealtime.