MOOOOOOOO!!!!!!

"Mooooo" is the word that awakened me this morning as I heard it being shouted from the crib repeatedly. I don't know if he was thinking about cows or wanting to see cows or was just craving milk (which was on his Do Not Eat list today). We got him up and were pleased to discover that he clearly felt just fine. He played as usual today and was exceptionally chatty all day.

He 'helped' me in the kitchen as I prepared lunch by opening the cabinets and removing all the pots and pans and then putting them back. He repeated this with the under-the-sink chemicals as well, which made me a bit nervous, but all he did was take them out and then put them back (the bottle of dishwasher liquid and the bottle of Jet Dry)--he didn't seem tempted to taste either thing. David and I spoke earlier today about moving those products to a different cabinet and putting a child proof latch in it. We are a little late with the childproofing there, but I'll admit that he's never in the kitchen unsupervised.

He watched some movies today as well because I thought he needed some more rest after his day yesterday, and a movie was the only way I could keep him still and quiet. He watched some Thomas the Train episodes and was enthralled. I like Thomas, too, because these shows are so calm and quiet compared with, say, Dora The Explorer, which we happened to catch a few minutes of at Gran's house.

The picture shows him eagerly gnawing on his fork in anticipation of the pot roast dinner that he smelled cooking in the crock pot all day long. We put extra carrots in for him and he was delighted to eat them. Honey got most of his roast portion, and she was delighted to eat that.

I'm just glad he was feeling so much better today! And from the increasing sophistication of his babbling as of late, I'll bet he'll be talking in sentences in no time at all. I can't believe how fast they grow and change!