One!

My boy is one!

He got a snappy new haircut today, too, which was almost impossible and the two of us were covered in hair by the end. Squirmy wormy. And unequipped Taiwan salon, but the guy was fun and worked hard and it turned out well.

We had a Very Hungry Caterpillar birthday, pictures on facebook. Since Guinness doesn't have that many friends we just had our friends from church come. The cake turned out well, but too big and to sweet. It was fun to have our house full of people and to have Tegan and Ryan here to celebrate with us (and to bring sour cream home form 101 with the. You can't get sour cream at just any grocery store, you know.)

All is well!

First Ear Infection

He was coughing and grouchy last night, and cried most of the day today. Very unusual for Guinness so I took him to the doctor after school. After a quick weigh and measure the doctor quickly diagnosed a middle ear infection, we got some medicine and away we went. (When it was measuring time, the nurse showed me the laying down table with the tape measure on it, but then the doctor asked me if Guinness could stand yet. Ha ha! Can he stand? He could climb up to the top of your desk mister!)

I love the confidence of doctors. When I have a fussy sickly kid and no idea what is going on, they can so quickly look and listen and know what's what. He took a 3 second look into the ear. 'Oh, ear infection." Simple as that.

Guinness was acting more normal pretty quick after the medicine, so hopefully Annabelle and Chris have a better day tomorrow.

Thinker

Babies are so cute when they problem solve!

So he loves my cell phone, of course. Babies and destructable technology seem magnetically drawn together. So he sees my phone and goes for it, but there was a new variable to the 'steal mommy's phone' game: it was plugged in. So he can't get as far as he wants. He holds it walks around in these arcs, like a horse being tethered in a ring. He tries shaking it. Lifting it up and down. Then he walked up to the little cabinet where it was resting and where the cable was all tangled up and he wiggles it, trying to get the cable loose. Then he tries the brute force method of just holding on tight and running and that broke it free. But it was a cute process to get there.