Looks like young Jackson has been photographed in the middle of a spit-up :


                           

But he's actually eating his first bowl of cereal.

Yes, he's still just under three months old - but Jax was born with all his teeth, not to mention a thick coat of hair on his back.

Jax's great grandmother (on his father's father's side) will be arriving tomorrow to meet him; by next week, she'll probably be cutting his sirloins into small bites. Or - just maybe - not-so-small bites - and he might wind up gnawing on the bones.

I don't think that eating at this young an age means that Jackson is in any way "advanced" (although parents fall for that sort of thinking) - once you've been around for a while, you learn that babies sort of pick up the things that they pick up when they pick 'em up, and it doesn't mean that they'll be geniuses or dullards later on. And being a big baby doesn't mean a thing with respect to the size of the adult they'll grow into, either.

Being pretty as infants has nothing to do with being pretty as an adult, come to think of it - I've got a picture of little David and Andy that is so pretty that it'll melt your heart, but now - well, they look like Pucketts. Silas as a child looks like a serene and integrated Buddha, but he hasn't blossomed into any sort of spiritual giant yet that I can see.

Come to think of it, I don't have any idea just when it is that you can tell what sort of adult a child might grow into - in my own case, I haven't arrived there just yet.

But I think that we CAN tell, from the looks of Jackson's puffy cheeks, that he's probably going to keep eating :)