Sit On It, Ralph

Lately, Adam's been taking advantage of his increased mobility to experience as much of the world as he can. But for some reason he's going through a phase in which he likes to sit on things, I guess just to see how it feels. He'll flop on most anything, often gradually leaning back until he's either slid off whatever it is or he's flat on his back (or both).

Sitting in his bucket of balls:

On his chair:
In his container of blocks:


Playing with his chair... and sitting in his container of blocks:

That boy ain't right.

You Can Leave Your Hat On

Adam has always been pretty good about wearing hats. It might have helped that he was born in the winter, so he's been wearing them since before he had the ability to do anything about it. With spring here and summer on the way, we decided to get him ready to ride the bike with us. At first, we got him used to the bike helmet by having him wear it around the house.
Then he got to see how it worked in the wild.


He thought the bike was great when it was moving, but it wasn't quite warm enough that day, so we'll have to wait for a little while before regular bike rides begin.

In the meantime, he'll still wear pretty much anything on his head, at least temporarily...

The Good Life

by Jean

The good things in life - walker, black puppy dog, and a bucket of balls to lounge in. Can't get much better than this.

Look how tall Adam is getting. He has figured out that being on his tippiest of tippy toes gives him at least another inch. Doorknob locks, here we come!

We have "re-purposed" an old toy - just don't tell him it is his Exer-saucer with the seat removed. Jumping up and down is great fun, and he can get in and out himself.

Adam and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day(s)

We've all been fighting colds for a little while now. We finally took Adam to the doctor Thursday. He came up negative for RSV, but he did have two nasty ear infections. It's difficult to know when things are bad with him because he's such a tough, stubborn little guy that he doesn't always give off clear signals (I wonder where he gets the stubborness. It's a mystery...).

Then Saturday, Adam suddenly developed a fever and had trouble breathing. We took him to the urgent care, where they deep-suctioned his nose/lungs and tested him for RSV again (negative again) and the flu (positive).

He had a pretty lousy Sunday morning too, clinging to Jean for most of the first half of the day. As you can see, life sucked for a while.

But he was feeling good enough by dinnertime to indulge in one of his favorite activities: eating spaghetti.

And by yesterday morning, he was feeling much better.