Going Mobile

 This morning I put Sam on his back in the middle of the playmat so that I could go cook breakfast.  I turned around and saw this:

He's not really crawling yet. He seems to be able to move every way but forwards, but he gets where he wants to go!

He is also very vocal lately.  He plays with a lot of sounds and sometimes I swear he's going to talk himself hoarse.

The other development is that he prefers to feed himself rather than someone else holding the spoon.  He's pretty good at getting it into his mouth however still ends up wearing a lot of food.  So far he's tried bananas, avocados, peaches, yogurt, apples, strawberry, sweet potato (which he did not like), rice cereal, peanut butter (yep, no reaction), and chocolate cake (thank you, Grandpa B.). Bananas seem to be his favorite so far with strawberry as a close second.

And, the best yet, he goes into deep belly laughing fits. You just have to make faces or zerbert his belly and he cracks up. It's the sweetest sound I've ever heard.