Moriarty got to meet his cousins for the first time this weekend. Pip's sister, Elizabeth, has 3 kids. Sofia is almost 4, and twin boys Ethan and Noah who are 5 weeks younger than Moriarty. They were living in Brazil until last week and now live in a suburb of Seattle. OMG COUSINS. Sofia was very very loving toward Moriarty and wanted to give him lots of hugs and kisses. He's also learning to kiss. He'll put his open mouth against our cheeks and make a kissy-like noise. It's incredibly cute. He also likes to kiss the baby in the mirror, who is him, but he doesn't know it yet. He's also very into his tongue right now. He seems to have discovered it in the last week. He likes to make raspberry sounds and stick it out. When we roll our tongue at him he'll roll his back. With his newfound tongue discovery he's also being more verbal. Tongues are fun.

We've done a lot more baby led weaning. He's had banana, avacado, green beans, turkey, broccoli...yeah I'm probably forgetting a few. He enthusiastically tries new foods. He's still not really swallowing anything, but he's definitely exploring textures and starting to show preferences. He doesn't love bananas. He'll eat them. But he gets bored pretty fast. Broccoli, on the other hand, is like crack. I tried to end dinner last night and he fussed and picked the broccoli out of his giant capture bib so he could mouth it some more. It is so much fun to place this new exciting world in front of him and watch him just go nuts. He also had his first substantial serving of grass. We were sitting at the park near the farmer's market and I let him suck on a stick and eat grass. I'm helping him build his immune system!

Until this week I hadn't notice him actually rattle any of his rattly toys, but this week I offered him some bells and he got really excited. He shook them up and down and they spend more time being shaken than in his mouth. That's saying something! I've been sick and haven't had any (or much) voice for about a week and a half which has really cut into our music making time. I miss it and it seems like he does too.