My Mobile Baby

It's been a busy number of weeks in the B household; and by busy, I pretty much mean horrible. You know your criteria for a successful day has been drastically altered when it shifts to simply avoiding personal harm to any of your immediate family. And before anyone is worried, no one has been hurt - but everything little, and no so little, has all seemed to go wrong at the same time

This past week was Cornell's Spring Break, which did at least gave us more time to deal with some of our problems. And it did have a very nice beginning with a visit from my parents! We also had more time to relax together with Alistair. Baby is much more mobile these days, and it seems, hellbent on destruction. As I began writing this post, he decided it was time to rip every book off the bookshelf. Thucydides barely survived being torn to shreds and subsequently digested. Yesterday he managed to get his hand into the side of the computer and pull out the cable for the power button, leaving us convinced he had magic computer-destroying capabilities, until we realized what had happened. He has also destroyed several of his own board books, some of my old school books, addressed envelopes, and left some good dents/scratched in the furniture with some of his many teeth. He now has (at least cut), all of his lateral incisors and 3 of his central incisors, and it reeeeaally looks like the canines are about to cut way ahead of schedule.

Oh, and for all his mobility, Alistair cannot crawl. I can't imagine what a terror he'll be then; for now, he gets along so well rolling and scooting he doesn't seem motivated to try.

He absolutely loves to eat, and he gets really upset if he doesn't get to share whatever mommy's having (I'm mostly a ninja diner now). Alistair is also very sensitive, and can't hold back the tears at the first few notes of a blues song (he totally lost it last night with "I'll be Home for Christmas.")

And even though this blog is mostly dedicated to baby ramblings, as a last little blurb, my hubby continues to surprise me. A few days ago I came out into the living room to see him light two candles in front of our TV (which doubles as our "computer monitor,") and then magically use a wii remote to control the mouse. Apparently he'd written some sort of script that allowed him to use the candles in place of a sensor bar.

In closing, here are two new pictures of Alistair from my parent's last visit. Both feature items knit by my mother.

Our Three Day Weekend

This Friday all of hubby's classes were cancelled, which made it an ideal weekend to leave Ithaca.  During the summer months the natural beauty of the area somewhat compensates for the otherwise dilapidated smears of human "civilization," but when everything is bleak and dreary during the winter, the rusty, paint-chipped town is even less appealing.  So this weekend we packed up and off we went to visit our family in Philadelphia (T's sister, her husband, and three children).  Unfortunately we had to be back in Ithaca for a school fundraising event on Saturday evening, which cut short our weekend; but by leaving Thursday afternoon we had a few hours that night, all of Friday, and Saturday morning to spend with family.  It was very refreshing to spend time with them, and my nephews and niece are absolutely adorable.  Alistair was not entirely certain of all the noise.  He enjoyed looking at his cousins but was too timid to do much interacting (he started screaming whenever anyone raised their voice).

We also had a chance to look around Philly, which is a very beautiful, old city with lots of history.  We had a good walking tour that was surprisingly easy, considering we had one child to each adult, all 5 or younger.  Hopefully we'll make it back to visit again soon!

 
In other news, Alistair cut his 5th tooth yesterday.  This one is on the bottom, immediately to the right of his two bottom teeth, so it looks less out of place.  I can see 3-4 more about ready to pop out, poor guy.