Caleb's Developmental Milestones

He turns 6 months today.

As he gets to know the world around him and the people in it, we're also learning much about who this little fellow is.

Girl got him this coinbank sometime back..

"Active and humorous with the loudest stomp in the swamp"

I think the description is somewhat accurate. Since birth, he was on several occasions given the unofficial award of being the loudest baby in the nursery. And he's since lived up to that reputation. Crying, laughing, burping, talking, farting, sighing, poo-ing... all also loud.

His first chuckle was heard before he turned 3 months. He's a rolly polly at the moment, just happily rolling around and at times "belly-ing" around like a worm. Loves to stand & sit, bite his nappy cloth (which by the way is his fav "toy"), watch his fairies go in circles and talks a lot in his husky voice. Loves his milk and cereal and we believe anything that we put into his mouth eventually. At this moment he seems to be a people baby. Doesn't mind being carried by our friends/family who are complete strangers to him on numerous occasions.

He's not a fan of his car seat but thank goodness he's growing more and more accustomed to it (in recent days he can doze off on his own while traveling). He can be quite impatient when it comes to his feeds and he doesn't hesitate to let you know how he feels. He has a beautiful smile and when he laughs, we'll definitely laugh with him. The term "bundle of joy" is very very apt.

The first 6 months we've been watching him grow... the next 6 months, he will be watching us more closely as he learns the ropes in becoming a little person.

Here are some of your funny and beautiful pictures captured in the past 6 months Caleb..

Of course there were plenty of other moments which could not be captured by technology.. but I'm thankful that I could capture it to memory. Too many thoughts which can't be penned down now but just let me put in an excerpt which is recorded in the Bible (Joshua 14: 6-12), of what the man whose name we named our boy said: 

“You know what the LORD said to Moses the man of God at Kadesh Barnea about you and me. I was forty years old when Moses the servant of the LORD sent me from Kadesh Barnea to explore the land. And I brought him back a report according to my convictions, but my fellow Israelites who went up with me made the hearts of the people melt in fear. I, however, followed the LORD my God wholeheartedly. So on that day Moses swore to me, ‘The land on which your feet have walked will be your inheritance and that of your children forever, because you have followed the LORD my God wholeheartedly.’

“Now then, just as the LORD promised, he has kept me alive for forty-five years since the time he said this to Moses, while Israel moved about in the wilderness. So here I am today, eighty-five years old! I am still as strong today as the day Moses sent me out; I’m just as vigorous to go out to battle now as I was then. Now give me this hill country that the LORD promised me that day. You yourself heard then that the Anakites were there and their cities were large and fortified, but, the LORD helping me, I will drive them out just as he said.”

What big shoes to fill... then again... God has your exact shoe fit so if He's made the shoe, your feet would fit.