Brian’s Brain

The curse of the second child is that developmental milestones aren’t as closely watched as they are for the first child.

We almost let this milestone pass unobserved: Patrick is very close to insisting on feeding himself, no matter the mess. It started with simple things, like Cheerios and crackers. It’s progressed to yogurt. The mess factor is going up.

He’ll still let us spoon-feed him if the meal starts that way. If he starts feeding himself, he expects that’s how the whole meal will go.

Looking at the pictures hanging on our walls, when Alex was about 11 months old you could really see the little boy that he would become. I wonder if Patrick has reached the same stage of development? Years from now, will we look back on pictures like this one and say, Ah, that’s when Patrick really started looking like Patrick!

If that’s the case, the poor guy’s not going to have a lot of hair when he grows up…