This month has been another big month for Dylan developmentally. He's not only standing well, but now he only really needs one hand for support and he has learned to turn himself around without falling. Most of the time. When he does fall it's a lot more graceful than it was just a week ago.

He's babbling more and more everyday. This month he moved from 'mamamamamamama' and 'babababa' to 'dadada' and most recently 'neh neh neh neh.' He's also learned to "motor boat" with his lips and basically does it all day spitting on anything in his path. Some of the noises he makes really surprise me. He must get these skills from Thomas because I certainly can't make the weird throaty piggish-froggish grunts he seems to have no trouble conjuring.

I finally committed to a few meet up groups and we attended our first meet up today. We went to a local farm to take a tour and see some cows. It was the perfect day for that sort of thing. 70 something, overcast, breezy. Breezy days are Dylan's favorite. when the wind blows he turns his head toward the gust and sticks his tongue out with a gleeful squeal. I really enjoy watching his hair blow in the wind. Before we left we sampled some yogurt cheeses, guanabana flavored drinkable yogurt. Thomas wanted to try some raw milk (which they sell for $8 per gallon), but they were out.  On our way out we picked up a dozen farm fresh eggs.  I asked about the diet of the farm's chickens and got the response "mostly bugs." Great!

Dylan seemed to be more interested in the other babies than he was in the animals. I think he's really going to enjoy the playgroups I've joined. I'm especially excited because he'll be around babies and kids of all ages. It's a good time to start getting him out of the house more I think.

After the farm we went for our third hike this week at a local nature preserve and Daddy volunteered to wear the baby!

I've also started to make him smoothies. Yesterday he had banana and pineapple and this morning he had avocado and banana. He really loves avocado anyway he can get it just like mama!

There was a lot of the banana-avocado mixture left once he was full so I turned it into a tropical green smoothie with raw honey and spirulina powder.

Tropical Green Smoothie
Fresh cut pineapple with juice
Half of 1 ripe avocado
1/2 banana
1 scoop green or superfood powder
1 TBSP raw, local, unfiltered honey
Water to desired consistency
**Blend and enjoy!