We spent the weekend at home resting and recovering from the week's ills. Ed seems to be doing a lot better, though he did take a few extra naps. He is not coughing as much and he's back to his usual eating/drinking habits. Unfortunately, as he was recuperating, I was stricken with an entirely different germ. His was respiratory. Mine was gastro-intestinal. Unpleasant. Enough said.
Ed and John did get out to storytime at the library on Saturday morning, allowing me an extra hour of quiet sleep. Thank goodness! I also slept through Ed's entire naptime Saturday afternoon--for those keeping score, he averages about three hours in the afternoon. Then after I got up with Ed's 6 a.m. wake up call today we ended up taking another nap from about 7:30 to 8:30 when I could think of no other method of getting him to stop crying after a quiet interlude for breakfast and kitchen play, so as to stay far from the bedroom where John was catching his well-earned "late" morning snooze. It worked. Guess he was a little over-tired too.Afternoons were better, as you can see here. Ed and John worked on some walking, with Ed starting out leaning against the chair and then propelling himself forward. I managed to capture the most exciting forward motion, but the battery was running low, so these images are not very high quality--probably won't print well, for those who might be inclined.
And here's another from earlier this week. I named it "multi-tasking" as you can see there are quite a few entertainment items being employed here. He doesn't stay focused on any one of them for terribly long, but if there are enough spread out around him, he's happy moving from one to the next.One funny thing from this weekend--Ed figured out when we were imitating him and it made him laugh. We think he might have a few more teeth on the way because his fingers are in his mouth constantly and there's lots of drainage from both mouth and nose. So at one point, John was holding Ed and Ed was chewing on his finger. John put his own finger in his mouth and pretended to do the same. Ed thought that was hilarious and then we of course thought his hilarity was hilarious. As I noted earlier, we didn't get out much this weekend. And finally, Ed discovered a new taste treat--pretzels. I was eating them in an effort to add something innocuous to my ailing stomach, and he reached up for the bowl and grabbed one. I was too wiped out to object and waited to see what he'd do with it. He ate it...eventually...after stopping at various points to spit it into his hand to observe the mastication process firsthand. Food and a toddler, what an appetizing mix!
