Boys...

So Gemma and I were making the ponies hair beautiful by adding clips and things, and Guinness came by to check it out. I suggested putting a clip on him, grabbed a little rooster tail in the front and gave him a unicorn horn. What does Guinness do? Feel his head to find the clip, pull it out, put it in his mouth and run away, squealing in delight. What a stinker.

He is running a lot lately, which is so scary because he gets going so fast a major wipeout is inevitable. He ran down the hallway on Friday and turned the corner to Gemma's room so hard he missed the opening and ran full on into the frame. Ouch!

All done!

So Guinness was eating his McVittie's digestive crackers in his high chair when he heard the theme to Blue's Clues. "Done!" he says. And I say, "No buddy, you still have some cookie in your hand. See?" So he looks at the cookie that he is clenching, throws it on the ground, and says, "done!!"

Thanks, man. :) What a kid.

Guinness' Ear

So Thursday night he woke up at 11pm. Crying. Not just whimpering, unsettled, but 'WAH, I"m really upset, take care of me now pleassse" crying. No cuddles, song, book, TV show could console him. He cried until 1:30, slept till 3:00, was up till 4:30, slept till 6. I pushed him in the stroller in the yard for a bit till he fell asleep during the 3am stint, but anyway, yah. Bad night! (I am proud to say I didn't lose my temper or yell at Chris for something completely ridiculous or anything, as I am sometimes prone to do when I am way over tired.) So I took the morning off work (Chris had his own dr. thing), and took him in. Left ear; good. Right ear; not good. Very inflamed, acute middle ear infection the doctor said. "This is why he is so dis-comfortable" the doctor said :)
So we left with: amoxicillan for the ear, 3 more things to take care of the lingering cold symptoms from last week, and 2 things for the fever, including a very special up the b*tt fever pill they like to prescribe for high fevers because it brings them down more quickly. Oh, Taiwan. But thankfully the lines were all short, I got all of this for a mere 100NT (3$) and an hour after taking all this wonderful medicine he was feeling and acting WAY better. Pheww!

So thankful we live in the modern age, with medicine for my babies when they are sick!

Guinness' words part II

chicken
down
door
all done
uck! (as in yuck!)
Auntie

Guinness' words

mine
no
yah
wow!
nana (banana)
hot
tang tang (hot)
down
apple
cracker
cookie
go go (dog)
puppy
mao (cat)
book
more
ball

Talking

So funny when you're previously unintelligable infant begins making sense. Guinness says, 'Yah' and 'No' at the right times (mostly), and does a number of other really cute language things. Like "Pop-corn". And today when Elmo's world came on Sesame Street he said, without any coaching, 'Elmo!".

His bedtime is also super funny. He hardly like to be cuddled, he just tries to dive down into his blankets and stuffed toys, and then he lays on his back looking up at you and says, "Bye bye!" Tonight I blew him a kiss and he blew one back to me.