The Agustin Report

He is cutting a tooth! How many times have I blamed things on teething, thinking that any day now I’d see one… And now here is the tooth, and … he’s really not acting any different. I just noticed a bump on his lower gum when we were in Florida, and now you can see/feel the tooth surfacing. If you give him a glass to nom on, you can also hear it clinking now.

He’s started doing what my family calls “Hulking out,” where he scrunches up his face and breathes through his nose. Apparently it’s a pretty classic baby move since all four kids in my family did it, and there is also photographic evidence of Adam doing it.


He’ll usually wave back at people who wave to him, and occasionally when somebody walks in the room and says “hi” to him, he’ll wave unprompted. So he’s got the greeting concept down. His latest parlor trick is clapping.

I’ve been trying to do a little sign language with him, and he finally seemed to start doing the “milk” sign. I’ve been hoping he’d sign it to me when he was hungry (rather than staring at my chest until he’s within range to dive for it and claw at my shirt—which was starting to become his standard practice), but he wasn’t always hungry when he signed for it. Often it was when he just wanted to be held. Then one day I passed him off to Adam (with a full belly) when he wanted to stay with me, and he started frantically signing with both hands “MILK!” And it hit me: He thinks I’m milk.


He pops up on all fours now and occasionally does a downward dog, but he’s yet to really crawl. He scooches a bit, but he’s stuck in reverse at the moment.


He also started pulling up. Adam and I were at a doctor's appointment filling out the developmental checklist, and I was about to mark "no" for "pulls up." Adam insisted that he does pull up. I was sure that he got most of the way up, but I'd never seen him pull completely up. The very next day I was talking to someone as he was sitting on the floor, and when I looked back at him, he'd pulled up.

The only problem is that he can get up (and he is immensely proud of himself when he's standing), but he can't get back down other than by falling straight back...

He still has a lot of separation anxiety. This was kind of a bummer while we were in Florida visiting family who don’t get to see him often and would like to hold him. I had no idea what a golden age three months was for passing him around.

He’s gummed several foods now, including sweet potatoes, bananas, avocados, pears, apples, peaches, asparagus, green beans, steak, chicken, salmon, egg yolk, blackberries, and zucchini.

We love him lots!