Creed Update

Oh, this has been the most disgusting week of my life! I can't even count the times I've been coated with Creed's bodily fluids. I took pictures to show Larry how bad things have really been, but I'll spare you and just say that Creed finally stopped throwing up on Wednesday, but he was still having major problems, and I went through 25 diapers on Wednesday. 25!!!!! That's horrific!

He's finally doing so much better today and seems to have really perked up, but we did get to have a lot of cuddle time this week.

And here's a little update for the grandparents. He loves to curl up with anyone who will read to him. His favorite books are lift-the-flap or touch and feel like Where's Spot? and anything by Matthew Van Fleet.

We started him back on solids slowly so I let him go to town with applesauce and a spoon yesterday. He was very entertained and gave me half an hour to clean while he was concentrating. He kept filling the spoon and getting it to his mouth only to turn it upside down at his lips and dump it on his chest.

He has recently learned how to climb up into his little armchair and loves to hang out there by himself. He also surprised us last night with another trick that he learned on his own. He walked over to his elephant and just jumped right on and rocked himself and then got off on his own too. We pulled out the video cameras and he totally repeated it. Pardon the sideways videoclip, it was too cute to skip posting!

And speaking of cute videoclips, you have to watch this one. For weeks now Creed has been doing a few things at the dinner table to to make us crack up. He has three classic moves: sticking out his tongue, opening and closing his mouth as wide as he can like a hippo, and wiggling his eyebrows (which is really just blinking, but he thinks that he's wiggling his eyebrows).

He babbles all the time, and we can't understand most of it, but every once in a while, something stands out and shocks us. In the last two days, we've repeatedly heard pizza, all done, camera, and David (our two-year old neighbor that he's been dying to play with all week while we kept him inside).

He also has a new favorite accessory of choice; glasses! He only wears them for a few seconds at a time before he hands them back to you and wants you to put them on him again. He tries to put them on himself, but they always end up on his neck or behind his head.