Everyone is napping, so I finally have a moment to post...Hooray! So much has happened since Richie's birthday (which really has not ended, yet). In global Richie news, about the week after his birthday he started walking more than crawling. Now, he's basically done with crawling all together and walks (waddles, really) to his destination. He'll still get distracted along the way, so he doesn't always make it to his destination and he still falls. He's started to climb stairs, when we let him near the stairs. They're still open, so, in theory, he could crawl through them and have quite a big fall. Unfortunately, he was climbing the stairs outside and was sitting on the lowest step when he fell backwards and dad was not close enough to catch him. He mostly hit his back shoulders when he landed on the welcome mat, but he did bump his head and it scared him a bit. (Me too.) I resisted the temptation to get a CAT scan, but it took a lot of effort to do that.
He's also learned how to shake his head for "No." Not exactly sure where he learned that one because we rarely shake our head when we say it. He "says" no to a lot of things but often doesn't really mean it.
He's been drinking water out of his sippy cups. He has no real interest in whole milk, although we're mixing it in to the formula in greater concentrations. Richie frequently just wants water; and a surprising amount of it, too. That's my boy! (Must be passed down from his Oma's side.)
He had a rough spell after his shots, which was expected. He even got the fever and rash about two weeks after the shot, just like they said. Then, we all had a cold (I also had a touch of food poisoning for a night), but we're all on the mend.
Richie has started eating a lot more table food! He seems to really like a lot of our cooking, too! He really likes one of the Thai dishes the ML makes, although she did take it down a notch. He likes Daddy's chicken soup, too!
I'm sure there's more stuff that I'm forgetting, but I figure you've waited too long for some new Richie pictures anyway...here they are...
When mommy is doing "stuff" in the kitchen, Richie is playing around on the floor with toys, pots, pans, etc. He frequently like to nibble and instead of having him cry every time he wants a Joe-O (Trader Joe's version of Cheerios), we have a little dish of them. Papa-Nat thought we had a cat in the house! (Nope, just a little Richie...who likes to watch the alley cats! Meow.)
He still likes oatmeal, too.
Richie's birthday party was postponed due to the potential for more snow! Can you believe it? It did not actually snow, but we decided not to risk it, so we had the party the following Friday. Oh, by the way, we're all melted-out now. We did have some heavy rain storms that caused the house to leak a bit, but that's a different story. Here's a picture from the party with some of his play-group friend. Papa-Nat and Honey happen to be in town for a couple of days, too.
Here's the boy after climbing two steps!
This is a picture of the Thia food that he gobbled down! (It's the dish we call "Red." He has not had "Yellow," yet.)
He still enjoys swinging, especially now that it's getting warmer. Fortunately, he had a nice infusion of warm clothes from his Oma for his birthday to tie him over.
And, he has not outgrown flying around on Mommy's legs!
Even though he chowed down on the Thai food, this is all he had to say.
