Thursday, April 8, 2010

Loving the boy :)

He was so sweet today, the little sicko. All he did was nap, and when he wasn't napping he was laying around the house. Laying on me, laying on the floor. He even walked over to the big diaper box from Costco and just rested his head on it. He perked up for about 10 minutes at 8pm, smiled and laughed and played some peekaboo and then petered out again, and is now in bed (where I hope he stays for a long time, and where I hope he doesn't explode through his diaper again in the middle of the night)

I just want to remember him forever like this; not sick but this perfect one year old, so cute and sweet and lovable and cuddly, and warm...I wish I would remember these moments forever.

Monday, March 29, 2010

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!

Thursday, March 11, 2010

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.

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

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.

Sunday, February 21, 2010

Climb Every Play Structure...

We were at school playing this morning, and Guinness was happily walking around. I looked away for a minute, turn back around, and, uh, there was my 10 month old. Standing on top of the bridge on the play structure. I didn't even see him climb, but he must have climbed up the 8 or so steps to the top. What a kid!!!

Thursday, February 18, 2010

Godzilla

The monster's reign continues!

He can climb up onto the footstool, but especially loves climbing on his squeaky Thomas chair. He stands at the front and grabs the back and climbs up and then down, then sits then up then down. The whole time I am freaked he is going to bite it but he is doing OK.

He teeth count is up to eight, the side ones came in last week.

He said Gemma twice; Gemma and I heard it. His other words are NaNa (for banana, or food in general), dada, and mama. He likes to clap his hands and listen to singing.

We are weaning; he is eating now only 2 or 3 times a day and then once still at night. I am glad. He is getting too big to hold comfortably across my lap like that, he's eating so much, and I am ready to end my nursing schedule of 7:15 go to work 9am go home 9:20 back to work 12 come home 12:25 back to work 3:15 come home.... Its too much!

Sunday, February 7, 2010

very good bandaids.

I did get bandaids for his owie; big waterproof ones. On;y they were TOO good, and after 24 hours I could not get it off! Even in the bath, even with baby oil. It took about 15 minutes of picking to get it off!!! The bandaid was just so smooth it made a perfect seak to his skin. Oooops! At least though it is better now!