Time marches on

A few tids, a few bits:

• Yesterday was the first day during which Isaac did not crawl. The amount of crawling has been gradually diminishing; the previous day I had only seen him crawl once. Maybe now it's gone forever. Just in case, I'll keep the video camera close at hand today -- where once I had the camera ready to capture his first steps, now I want to preserve his final crawl. Isn't parenting weird? Time moves too slowly, it moves too quickly, I look forward with anticipation, I look back with nostalgia, and I'm left in the middle feeling proud and wistful at the same time.

• Yesterday was also the first day that Isaac ate what we were eating -- no separate baby meals were prepared. Well, breakfast had some substitutions -- he had plain raisin bread while mine was spread with peanut butter, and he had yogurt made with whole milk while mine was low-fat, but we both had banana. For lunch we both had bean and cheese quesadillas on flour tortillas brushed with olive oil and broiled in the toaster oven, with avocado on the side. For dinner the whole family had pizza topped with pepperoni and olives. (I didn't say it was a day of healthy eating ...)

• Isaac is working on a new sound: C. It's a nice addition to the vowels and the M, B, and D sounds he favors. His C sounds like the K in kite if you sustained it, and is mostly used to mean "clock," although a slightly harder and unsustained variant means "sock." I think he found out about clocks from Good Night Moon, where there are two clocks (analog, of course). A regular point of interest on Isaac's walking tour of our house is Craig's nightstand, where there are two clocks (digital, of course), including a travel alarm clock with lots of buttons and a lid that snaps closed. Another stop on the tour is our office, where Craig has an 1950s-era voltage meter (manufactured by the unimaginatively named Sensitive Research Instrument Corporation) with a dial and a needle, and it gets called "clock" as well -- if you have no concept of time, why not?