"Mama," "Dada," and other milestones

Our vacation was a big time for Robin, he hit several milestones while we were gone.
The biggest, for me anyway, was that he started babbling "Mama!" It's so cute! He doesn't seem to be associating me with the words yet, but he said it!

He's also thrown some other consonant sounds in there, and a few days ago he managed "Dada" too! He also said what sounded like "Daddy" last night. Unfortunately, he's just as camera shy about babbling as he was about cooing, so I don't have any good videos of either. He babbles a little in this video, but the big thing to see here is him rolling over from his back to his tummy (which he does all the time now.)

Another thing he did while we were on vacation is we think he is doing the sign language for "milk." We're not 100% sure (the context isn't always correct, but usually is) but we think that's what he's doing. So he's begun to communicate!

He got to go swimming for the first time on vacation! The first day, he kept splashing himself in the face and then looking around to see who was splashing him--it was cute! We took him down the kiddie water slide too, and we went to the pool several times. He never fussed, so while he often seemed unsure of the water, he didn't hate it!

He is so close to crawling now, as you can see below. He's getting up on his hands and knees more (though it helps if he's backed up to something solid like a wall) so pretty soon he ought to be able to master the concept of moving forward. We have the baby gate up over the stairs, so at least he can't take a big tumble.

Hiking with Daddy