Its been an interesting few days.
Firstly, Wonderbaby has started babbling his first baby word. We're not sure exactly what it means. He says "ba ba ba" all day long, especially when he sees something that intrigues him. He wakes up saying it. He goes to sleep saying it. He says it while jumping in the activity gym. We love hearing him babble but we'll also confess we look forward to the day he says something coherent - like ma ma or da da!
Secondly, the weather here has been lovely. For two days straight it has been twenty degrees and sunny. So we've spent some time reuniting Reed with the great outdoors. This time we introduced him to bubbles. Matt purchased an enormous bottle of bubble-maker, dunked in the circular stick and blew a billion bubbles around the yard. Wonderbaby found this very exciting. He squealed as the the shiny spheres blew over his head and floated away. He even popped a few with his sticky little fingers. Bubbles it seems are a baby favourite.
Lastly, we had an extremely funny clothing mishap. It was early evening and bedtime for Wonderbaby. We were both getting him ready by bathing and changing and dressing him in his nightwear. As we sat in his room - Matt fighting to dress our wriggly wee baby - Reed fidgeted and rolled his little body towards a white rubber doorstop plugging the door. Clutching it in his hands he chowed down on it like a teether. At this point we didn't mind and in fact took advantage of the distraction and continued dressing him. One of us pinned him down while the other pulled on the sleeper. Reed grizzled and whined and tried to escape but we persevered and finally he was dressed. We sat feeling smug. We had outsmarted our acrobatic baby.
Until Matt mentioned that he thought something was wrong. Wonderbaby was still very grizzly. Puzzled we studied him a little closer. Then Matt started laughing. It soon became apparent what the problem was. A triangular shape was poking out from beneath his little blue sleeper. It was the doorstop! At some point during the dressing commotion Reed dropped it down his back and we unknowingly covered it up. The poor thing had been trying to tell us! While we tried very hard to act upset and comfort our unhappy little boy we will also admit we laughed until we cried. It was very very funny.
Thankfully Reed has a good sense of humour and eventually forgave us. We had hoped he might learn from this incident and realize there are consequences to 'crying wolf'. If Wonderbaby didn't cry every single time we dressed him the doorstop incident might never have happened. However judging from the wailing coming from the living room where Matt is changing Wonderbaby's diaper its looking doubtful.
So it has been an interesting and fun few days. Even our spaniels are enjoying themselves, the sun appears to be lifting their spirits too. The poor things have been sick so its nice to see the wag back in their tails.
In fact, if we had tails we'd wag them.
Perhaps spring is finally here.
Lastly, we had an extremely funny clothing mishap. It was early evening and bedtime for Wonderbaby. We were both getting him ready by bathing and changing and dressing him in his nightwear. As we sat in his room - Matt fighting to dress our wriggly wee baby - Reed fidgeted and rolled his little body towards a white rubber doorstop plugging the door. Clutching it in his hands he chowed down on it like a teether. At this point we didn't mind and in fact took advantage of the distraction and continued dressing him. One of us pinned him down while the other pulled on the sleeper. Reed grizzled and whined and tried to escape but we persevered and finally he was dressed. We sat feeling smug. We had outsmarted our acrobatic baby.
Until Matt mentioned that he thought something was wrong. Wonderbaby was still very grizzly. Puzzled we studied him a little closer. Then Matt started laughing. It soon became apparent what the problem was. A triangular shape was poking out from beneath his little blue sleeper. It was the doorstop! At some point during the dressing commotion Reed dropped it down his back and we unknowingly covered it up. The poor thing had been trying to tell us! While we tried very hard to act upset and comfort our unhappy little boy we will also admit we laughed until we cried. It was very very funny.
Thankfully Reed has a good sense of humour and eventually forgave us. We had hoped he might learn from this incident and realize there are consequences to 'crying wolf'. If Wonderbaby didn't cry every single time we dressed him the doorstop incident might never have happened. However judging from the wailing coming from the living room where Matt is changing Wonderbaby's diaper its looking doubtful.
So it has been an interesting and fun few days. Even our spaniels are enjoying themselves, the sun appears to be lifting their spirits too. The poor things have been sick so its nice to see the wag back in their tails.
In fact, if we had tails we'd wag them.
Perhaps spring is finally here.
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