Eek Week!

Following a splendid weekend with Grandma Marcia and Grandpa Dave, where Ian exhibited signs of walking with the aid of a mobile ottoman and the lil guy met all kinds of island-folk… things turned a little sour this week. Part of it was our fault… we decided that it was time to stop bowing to each time the lil guy needed attention in the middle of the night, and so began to ween him off of this, knowing that the long-term gain was well worth a week or so of sacrifice. The frustration of this was compounded by the danger of a flooding basement and blackouts throughout this week thanks to powerful storms rolling through the Rockford area, as well as a little bit of sickness on his part. See this image larger.

Today he got his first bruise at daycare.

There were some good moments, however. He continually advances in the “crawl” department, outright taking very crawl-like steps the other day, and pulling himself up as well. One of the more shocking bits was when we discovered he was holding the vertical bars of his crib like those of a prison cell. What made it astonishing was that I pointed with one of my hands and said “move this hand up to here.” He did. “Now move this hand up to here.” And he did. “Now move this hand up to here.” Again, he did. “Now put your hand flat up on here.” (Horizontal top of the crib wall…) And he did. “Now put your OTHER hand up here.” Aaaaand… he did. Granted I pointed at each of these places, but is it me or is he getting smarter, if not stronger?!?See this image larger.

RETRACTION – I am sorry to say that we have gone back to “basic” cable television… the price that was promised to us was something that our cable company could not actually match when the bill showed up. Being that we don’t watch it all that much, we decided to cancel. Sorry sports fans!