new tricks

In just the last few days Austin has been up to a few exciting and funny things.

• I found him standing in his crib the other morning (this is a reenactment for your viewing pleasure) when I heard him crying.  He has been pulling himself up from sitting, but this is the first time he has figured it out from lying down.
• He's been scratching the top of his head when he gets tired
• He is signing the sign for "nurse" when he is eating.  I think he means "more" so we are working on that.
• He does patty cake when he hears me start to sing it
• The other day i was feeding him bites of "real" food and I thought he was doing so well eating a bunch of it until he started coughing and semi-choking and I realized he had been storing it all in his cheeks and not swallowing it (and we all know that there is a LOT of room in those cheeks!)