It’s so good to be home! We had a great week spending time as a family. It took a couple of days but we eventually fell back into our “normal” routine. It’s so amazing to me how much he changed in one week. He learned new tricks, plays new games, and grew. He’s currently really into things that roll or things he can make roll. He takes toys and scoots them around the floor making what I’m calling car noises (you know that wound when you blow air through your lips? Some people would call it another kind of noise but not me). He’s also mastered “walking” behind his push toys. He walks around the house behind his wagon and train. When he can’t find a toy that has wheels that he can stand up and push, he resorts to moving the furniture around. He pulls himself up on our side table and pushes it across the living room. He also likes to move the barstools around. I keep joking that we watched too much HGTV when he was a newborn and now he’s got a flair for design. He’s showing no interest in actually walking yet, though. He won’t even try to stand on his own. He’s so fast at crawling that he just drops down and crawls wherever he wants to go.
We had an awesome weekend. The weather on Saturday was gorgeous so we went and hung out at the park. We brought a blanket and watched birds and joggers go by. After the park we went to lunch at Torchy’s (I haven’t been there since the green chili taco disaster of Oliver’s second week). That afternoon Lindsey came over and we spent the afternoon/evening/night celebrating numerous holidays in one. We baked a King Cake to celebrate Mardi Gras, had Chinese food delivered for Lunar New Year and baked chocolate souffle cupcakes for Valentine’s Day. Brian, Oliver and I spent a lazy Sunday together. I didn’t get out of bed until 10:30! Oliver woke up around 6 and he and Brian went to the grocery store while I slept in. When they got home around 8:30 Brian brought Oliver into our room and he slept with me for another two hours. When I (finally) got up Brian made me a great breakfast of Eggs Benedict. Yum! Sunday night Brian and I made coq au vin, drank some wine and watched a movie to celebrate Valentine’s Day. We were in bed by ten. What a great night!
In other news, Oliver has been really exhausted the last couple of days and has been refusing solid food (he’s been subsisting on breast milk and oatmeal cereal). He was also running a slight fever on Saturday and had a horribly painful diaper rash for a couple of days. Other than all of that, he doesn’t seem sick (he’s not crabby, he’s sleeping well, etc.) but we’re keeping an eye on it. If his appetite doesn’t improve in a couple of days we will take him into the doctor.
Here are the pictures from this week (Eight more weeks!):
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