Weathering

Monday, March 26, 2007

Sick on my birthday


Although Will is pictured above, I am the one sick on my birthday. Actually, Will isn't in the best of health either, but he seems more or less OK, but with a stuffy nose and cough. I'm pretty sure I caught my cold from him, and now that it has moved to my chest I pretty much can't walk ten steps without suffering the collapse. I came home from work early and am now waiting for Meagan to arrive so that she and I can go pick up Will from daycare. Meagan is also bringing my birthday cake! And I have probably at least an hour and a half to nap before she gets here, so hopefully that will perk me up enough to enjoy the pizza, salad, and cake that we are having for dinner tonight.

Monday, March 19, 2007

Time to babyproof?


This afternoon Will sort of almost crawled! He was playing naked on his quilt, which is one of his favorite things to do, and decided that he really had to suck on my chin (another of his favorite things to do). Only I was a couple of feet away from him! No problem--he squirmed himself closer and closer, grunting with the effort of each inch, until he made it to my chin. I saw Oliver moving like this a couple of weeks ago, and from what I hear from Julie he essentially now has the run of their place, so we might be in danger of having a mobile child much sooner than I expected. I'm guessing we have a month or so until he's really getting far (Oliver is unquestionably ahead of Will, even accounting for their slight age difference).

Tuesday, March 13, 2007

Half year!

Yesterday morning, Will turned six months old. He celebrated with five shots--not a good time, I'm afraid. He actually did quite a bit better with his four-month shots, for some reason. But the good news is that he's healthy and growing well, 15 lbs, 6 oz, still in the 25th percentile.

He's been very talkative the past few days, exploring all of his voices, which is better than what he was doing two weeks ago when the only noises he'd make sounded like machine gun fire. And he loves to eat. I get the impression pears are not his favorite, but he loves squash, sweet potatoes, and bananas. He grunts all Monica Seles style with each spoonful that I give him. And he waves his arms in anticipation of the next bite. It's so cute how much he loves it. We got the go-ahead from the doctor to try pretty much any fruit or vegetable at this point, and continue on to meats next month.

Now that Will can sit up on his own, he's better at entertaining himself with toys. Two days in a row I've gotten phone calls in the afternoon so I sat Will on his quilt with a bunch of toys and let him do his own thing while I sat near him talking on the phone. Before he could sit on his own, this never would have worked. He has very little patience for tummy time, so he wouldn't have lasted more than five minutes or so without crying. But I think he sat and played nicely for at least half an hour, probably longer, both days. He doesn't look close to crawling yet, but I see how the urge will hit him. He was really looking around and choosing which toys looked the most interesting and going after them. For now he gives up if he can't reach them from a sitting position, but I'm sure that will change soon enough.

Thursday, March 08, 2007

Will's HUGE weekend





First of all, Will met Oliver. This event alone was huge, as you can see by the looks on the boys' faces in the first picture above. Then, and this is extremely exciting for me, Will learned to sit up by himself, as you can see in the second picture above. He watched Oliver do it for two days and decided that he wanted in on the action. And as if that weren't enough, on Sunday he got to meet Rorie, shown in the third picture above.

It was a very nice weekend of meeting new babies and catching up with good friends. And the weather was beautiful on Friday and Saturday. We took several lovely walks. On Sunday it was cold and windy. We attempted a walk, but gave up within a block of our place. So we went back inside and ate cookies instead.