Day 110: Laughter is the Best Medicine

I work a lot and I have a good deal of stress with owning my own business and dealing with clients and subcontractors and financial matters. It all goes away though when I hear Elliott laugh. When I come home and finally have a chance to sit down with him, I do whatever I can to get him to laugh. I get a lot of smiles, it's easy to make him smile, but eventually I'll hit the sweet spot and I'll get a whole bunch of little laughs in a row. And every once and a while Ill just crack him up and he'll really get going. That just makes my day. I feel like if we were living on the street with no food I would alright as long as I could hear him laugh.

Day 108: Get In My Belly!

Yesterday was Elliott's first solid food. He has been hungry more often so we thought it was time to get him a little rice cereal. Krystal mixed it up and we gave him just couple spoon fulls. We're starting with very small amount to let his tummy get used to it and to see if it upsets his stomach at all. He's at the age where his digestive system might not be fully ready, but he's grown so much faster than what is average I was pretty confident that he was ready.

He got the food off the spoon pretty well. He still has the reflex to push things out with his tongue but he eventually got the rice cereal down. He seemed pretty happy about trying something new. After a few spoonfuls he never developed any signs of an upset stomach so maybe today we can step it up another spoonful.

It's another activity that is adding a whole new series of little funny facial expressions to his repertoire. It's so crazy that he's a little mini person with little mini expressions and gestures. So he'll be eating more real food and then crawling and walking and talking and those will add so much more.

Day 101: Same 'Ol Situation

Not much new activity has been happening. I've finally got jobs caught up and am taking weekends off. It's finally getting nice out so I've been able to work on cleaning up the house more. I took a load of stuff to the dump yesterday. I still have more debris in my trailer from past jobs. I need to take that to the dump and then clean out the garage a bit. I bought a weedeater not too long ago and was finally able to tame the back yard. Normally I would mow but there would be a bunch of longer grass around the fence and the cinder blocks that separate the two levels of our yard. Now I've got it all clean. Some day Elliott can play in this yard maybe.



Elliott is growing fast. He's already wearing six month old clothes. We've been getting boxes of hand me downs from our friends Brian and Erica up in Seattle. It's nice because we don't have to buy clothes, but also the clothes they've been sending are really cute. Thanks guys! He is looking at stuff and grabbing for it now. Still holds his head up fine but hasn't quiet got the hang of sitting up on his own. He's pretty good with a little assistance. He's still a generally happy baby. He thinks I'm freaking hilarious. All I have to do is look at him and he starts laughing. Is that a good or a bad thing? I don't care.