Picknick and New Things to Eat

It was a big week for Finlay. He's starting to eat real food now, including carrots, zwieback (dolly-toast, as we call it) and a mixture of pureed parsnips and potatoes, most of which end up around him, including up his nose. He's also started crawling/lunging for things, including the cats, which are keeping a wary distance, after losing a few handfuls of fur. We have a "discovery blanket" with toys and mirrors and rattles attached to it, and he now rolls around all over it, lurching and lunging off to the side and finding ways to move about. Actual crawling and sitting up can't be far off.

Here is Finlay at a picknick on Friday with friends of ours from Monaco, and Finlay crawling toward what he correctly identified as food. But not his!