Ready!

I don’t have much of an update, mostly because I haven’t had much of anything to record video or audio-wise… and no real photo opportunities have presented themselves (at least none that I was prepared for.)

If I haven’t mentioned it, a week or so ago Melissa swept her finger across Ian’s gums and found his little molars coming in. You can tell by the way he gnaws on his blanket that his mouth is not a happy camper.

Yesterday Ian insisted on watching Elmo while I was trying to show him a video game. (Go Dad.) I asked him which Elmo he wanted to watch; there’s an Elmo movie that we can watch in my office, and episodes on a DVD up in the living room. I couldn’t figure out how to tell him all of this, however, so I tried to come down to what I thought his level would be: “Do you want to watch the Elmo that’s upstairs in the living room? Or the Elmo here?” “Elmo blankie” was his response. See, it turns out in the Elmo movie, he’s got a blanket… so Ian was showing me that his level was higher than I had given him credit for.

Alright… so I titled this entry “Ready!” for a reason. This morning Ian got out the waterproof pad, and threw it on the floor, stacked a clean diaper on top of that. And then he laid down on his back, on top of that pile, spreading his legs slightly and turning to me with a smile. This is almost exactly what I do every time I change his diaper, except that I spread out the pad, and open up the diaper before I set him down. Needless to say, my jaw was on the floor.