Anzel is almost 6 months old now, and the last bath I took was when I was 40 weeks pregnant and filled with curiosity about this little being inside of me. And now here we are, and I could not be more in awe of him!
He is rolling over from back to front and front to back everywhere. It's his primary means of getting from Point A to Point B, and he's working hard to get all his parts to coordinate so he can start crawling. It won't be long now!
A few weeks ago we noticed a tooth on the bottom getting ready to come through when we were in Philadelphia, and the next day it came through the surface...his first tooth! Anzel stayed in his first hotel and enjoyed another city for the first time. When we took him to day care the Tuesday after our trip, we told them that he had a second tooth under the surface. By the time we picked him up that day it had popped through! And then there were two. Now they're growing and you can see them in his sweet little smile.
His personality is really starting to shine through. He loves to laugh and smile. He is incredibly fond of soft, furry animals (like his mama), and he LOVES to eat. His favorite is squash, and when we feed it to him, he grunts in between each bite, as we can't get food into his mouth fast enough. We've taken to calling him "Two-Tooth Squash Beard" for the time being.
Today is Halloween, and it's the last weekend with the beautiful Fall leaves on the trees upstate, so we decided to get out of the city (because there is also the Halloween Parade, World Series, and NYC marathon happening this weekend) and come to enjoy the brilliance of nature in full effect. Yesterday we went to Clermont State Historic site right by the Hudson River, and it was spectacular.
It's funny because the night before I took Anzel to our rooftop in Brooklyn to watch the sunset, and he experienced a whole different type of beauty. The pink light of the sky reflected off of the Empire State Building and the rest of the skyline while we watched the water towers of Brooklyn turn to silhouettes.
Buying this house was one of the best decisions we've made together, second only to having Anzel, of course.
In the midst of work and everything else that's happening, we're also trying to figure out how to get married. The where, the when, and the HOW are stumping us. But soon enough we will have a plan and when we do I have no doubt it's gonna be FUN!
