Hey, This Isn’t Food!
9/19/2004
Well, it’s been a thrilling weekend. Friday night was all about going to the grocery store. Whoo-hoo! After the Spud went to bed. (About the only definitive thing the pediatrician has told us about raising babies is that watching TV is bad for their brain. Suck it, Baby Einstein!)
Saturday was all about the Baby. Well, even more so. We had an appointment at the Sears Photo Studio to get some 1 year photos. (FYI: Wendi does NOT need anyone to point out that the child is well over 13 months old.) We spent the morning trying him in various outfits, getting him cleaned up and trying like hell to keep him from bonking his head on anything. (Last week’s bruise was just faded away enough to be covered by make-up.)
Yesterday was also his first day of life without any breast milk. Xander is officially weaned (weened?). It’s kind of sad, seeing the boppy pillows put away for good but Wendi didn’t want to dwell on it so I’d better not. And that first glass of Dt. Dr. Pepper in over two years tasted mighty good!
The photo went pretty well though as you all know, in times of stress, Alexander will comfort himself by sucking on two fingers. SOMEBODY decided that that’s not a professional pose and so a lot of time went into persuading the star to remove his figures. Of course, having a bunch of grown-ups acting goofy would cause just about anyone to feel a bit uncomfortable. But we got a few decent shots. Those of you we really like (and you know who you are) will be getting a picture sometime this fall.
Afterwards, Wendi wanted to show me some furniture at JC Pennies so off we went. While traveling there across the Mall, I learned that my brave young lion Hardy is terrified of elevators. (Wendi recently went on a mall walking power-stroll with another new mother and so was aware of this.) Despite using my best repertoire of head shaking (mine, not his) and tickling his chin, Xander spent most of the 8 second ride up to housewares crying.
We got back in time for X’s next meal and nap. He was pretty tired out and so fell asleep pretty quickly; He hardly bothered to fling any food about the room.
For those new parents in need of a good scare, I decided I didn’t much care for the glass door on the entertainment center and decided to remove it. On his very supervised trips about the Family Room/Kitchen, Xander really likes pounding on things and this piece of glass seemed more trouble than it was worth. It could probably stand a neo-toddler’s pounding but…. I unscrewed it and carefully took it into the garage. As I gently set it down next to the freezer, it burst into hundreds of pieces. Shocked the hell out of me. That 2x3 foot piece of glass could stand a toddler pounding his little fat fist on it but not being gently set down on the floor. I tried to spin it as a good thing but Wendi remains convinced that something is somehow my fault.
Xander had about a 30 minute tour of the kitchen/family room before all this happened. He didn’t care much for the linoleum floor till I took his socks off. He seemed very impressed with the rabbit cage (most people are) but repeatedly tried to stick his fingers in there. I gave him a few serious “Xander, no!” but it will probably take no more than one bite from Lily the Demon Rabbit for him to learn this lesson.
He also was very good at finding the rabbit pellets that managed to elude my TWO vacuumings from the day before. At least, I hope he only found two; that’s how many I confiscated from him.
That’s about it for now. Tina and Aunt Ginny should be stopping by this week. There’re tons of movies on the iMac of Xander sort of walking which need to be put onto DVD but the computer’s been acting all hinky lately. I’m saving up for a new operating system in the hopes that that’ll straighten everything out and I can continue making fine DVD projects to love for years to come. (Note to the hint-challenged-that’s OS 10.3.)
It’s about time for the afternoon nap. Heck, I might take one too. Keep in touch and we will do the same.
Yours,
B/W/X