Been meaning to post this...

Names of been changed to protect the innocent...if there are any.

The little person living in our house, we'll call him Bart, has become increasing alter to the noises around him. When he hears someone approaching him, Bart will quickly crawl to the nearest object that he can use to help him stand so he can look around. Often, that object is either his mother, we'll call her Marge, or his father, we'll call him Homer.

Bart heard a loud noise the other day which startled him sufficiently that he jumped into Marge's lap so he could look around and see what the noise was. Odd, no Homer. It sounded like a noise that Homer some times makes. Homer, however, was at work. Marge, by this point was cracking-up. Not because the noise came from her. Oh, no. Bart scared himself with is own fart!

Marge and Homer are frequently told how surprisingly alert Bart is for his age. We never quite understood what they meant...until now.

In other news: Richie is getting his fourth tooth (his second upper incisor). As such, he has been having some difficulty sleeping at night. Now that he crawls better, we can tell when he's bored with his daddy...he just crawls away. Poor daddy. That takes about 30 minutes. On the other hand, he will still cry when daddy leaves the room. Even if he's eating. He's still babbling, occasionally a lot! He's about 21 pounds these days. He's eating solid foods, including cheerios! Sweet potatoes are his favorite non-crunchy followed by squash. He's putting things in containers, but he's not very big on stacking. He'll do that once in a while but mostly he like to knock stacked objects down. He's starting to have favorite books. There's one book that if mommy starts saying the first line, he'll go and grab the book. He'll find the lion, but only about once/hour or so. If you ask again, he'll just look at you as if to say, "It's right there! I already pointed it out to you! Were you not paying attention?! Find that darn thing yourself." Really, he just ignores you if you ask him to do it again.

Alright, that's all I can think of at the moment!