Luke continues to do well. He's in a good sleep phase (as opposed to last week). He sits up by himself, and is growing more amenable to being on his stomach. He's also quite desperate to start eating solid foods. He is entranced whenever we eat anything and complains until we put him on our lap. Tonight, he managed to grab 2 green beans and some spaghetti sauce from my plate and was making a beeline for his mouth when we caught his hand. We were going to wait until six months (Dec. 19) to start him on solids, but we're thinking he's not going to make it that long. I think we're going to follow Ken and Victoria's example and start him off with sweet potatoes.
(no we weren't letting him lick the plate)
We also (gasp!) left Luke with a sitter other than grandma for the first time on Tuesday when we went out to 82 Queen for my birthday. Tim and Charity Summers, a couple from our church who are really great with babies, came over and watched Luke while we were gone. They have two teenage sons in the youth group, and a third, Darius, was a friend of ours at college. We were worried they would have trouble putting Luke to bed, but they claimed he was no trouble at all. They even accused us of making up Luke's trouble with sleeping:).
(Luke with the Summers)
On the entertainment front, Greg and I have actually gone to see some movies! Over Thanksgiving, we went with my brother to see Bobby and Casino Royale. Bobby was utterly disappointing, especially for a history nerd like myself and a Robert Kennedy fan, like my brother. The actual footage they showed of Kennedy was riveting and gave me chills, but all the fictional stuff was a failure. They were going for a slice of life type of thing, with about 37 story lines, but, try as they might, they couldn't get the audience to care about those people. Casino Royale, on the other hand, was quite enjoyable. As origin films go, it was far inferior to, say, Batman Begins (I agree with Ken on this), but compared to the last few Bond films, it was great. I just don't get in to invisible cars crashing around ice palaces and such, so the (somewhat) more realistic approach was refreshing. And I love Daniel Craig. After seeing his turn as a spineless weasel in Road to Perdition, it was amazing to watch him as Bond. Lastly, we saw Happy Feet, which is not so much a movie as an assortment of movies, few of which are for children. If you don't like your child to be terrified or exposed to heavy sexual innuendo, stay away. There was, however, the refreshing ecological message that humans DO care for the environment, but only when said environment entertains us, preferably by tap dancing.
