I wonder what little man will be when he grows up.

Little man has been growing so fast!  We were just looking at video we’d taken of him at around 3 months old the other night and couldn’t believe the change a few months has made.  Not only that, we couldn’t believe how much his hair has grown!  We thought he had a lot of hair at 3 months old…it’s nothing compared to his hair now!  Look at those little curls on the sides of his head!

Lately, I’ve been trying to see into his little budding personality.  He’s a curious little fellow – but I think most babies are curious by nature.  It cracks us up to see him lean over to the side (and sometimes topple over doing so) to see who’s coming down the stairs, who’s talking, or where the noise he’s hearing is coming from.

Don’t you just love that thoughtful look?

Today, I was watching just how far his level of persistence towards a goal would take him.  We have a bunch of toys he plays with in a cardboard box; he loves the box probably more than the toys inside.  I hadn’t taken any toys out of the box, and set him down beside it, curious what he’d do with either the box or the toys.

He hasn’t quite gotten the hang of crawling yet – mostly, he just crawls backwards.  But in the past week, he’s figured out how to get up to a sitting position from his hands and knees and does a pretty good job of getting around that way.

Here’s the funny thing, though.  He was on his hands and knees, trying to reach a ball in the box.  He tried for a few minutes to get that ball, but it was just barely out of reach.  He was as close to the box as he could go, but his little arms just didn’t make it, not matter how much he tried.  If he knew how to crawl forwards, it probably would have helped – he really just needed to get up a little higher on his knees to reach that ball.  But after a few minutes of trying, he got into a sitting position and looked around for something else that would provide amusement.  He didn’t cry because he couldn’t get the toy he wanted; he just looked for something else to play with that he could access.  He did eventually end up back at the box, trying again for various toys, and, when he couldn’t get the ones he wanted, either getting something that was already out, or just getting one that he could reach.

It’s fascinating seeing these bits of personality in little man.  I can’t wait to see more and more of his personality as he grows older!