Now I just have to bide my time until I get the okay to come over and visit! They have lots of friends and family in the area, so I think it might be crazy for a while. Or it could be like for us, I had maybe a half dozen visits during my entire 3 month maternity leave.

So, of the three people I knew who were due in November, they have all had their babies (due dates ranged from Nov 7 - Nov 25). I still have a pair of socks to finish up for the one born last week. I was frantically trying to finish the sock before my co-worker disappeared. But he disappeared before I finished the second sock. He’s coming back to work next week so I’ll finish it up this weekend.

We had fun on Friday.  We went to the local parade with Catherine, Stephen, and Noah.  Too bad it was a Friday, otherwise more of the local marching bands would have been able to come.  Only 2 bands made it to the parade and I missed the band from the school we practice at on Tuesday nights.  So, I only got to see one marching band in the parade.  I think next year we will go to my sister’s to go trick or treating with his cousins.

It is surprising how many people recommend putting my finger into his mouth and massaging his gums… Excuse me, but did you continue to do that once your baby had 5 teeth?  Sure I did that for the first one, but no way am I sticking my fingers in there now to massage his gums.  Also, 5 teeth?  He’s been stuck at 5 teeth for 5 weeks!  You know how they say that the teeth usually come in pairs… usually is the key word in that sentence.  For the past two weeks I’ve been saying he has 5 teeth with 5 more on the way!  No wonder the little guy is in so much pain.  I know that eventually they will all be here, but I’m hoping it is sooner rather than later.

And to continue with the Henry standing news (I meant to say a couple of seconds not minutes in yesterday’s post), he stood and clapped for 5 seconds at daycare yesterday!

Not the most flattering picture of him (his belly really isn’t that big!), well except for his face which is really cute and I love the little squat. Multiple times over the weekend I caught him standing by himself for a couple of minutes. Scott say he stood for like 5 seconds yesterday. They were outside and Henry was looking at a leaf in his hand and just stood there.

On Sunday, Aunt Traci let him play with an older walker she had from when her girls were little (when I say walker, I really mean those push/ride on toys, something similar to this). He was going to town. At one point he had a block in one hand to chew and was strolling along holding on with the other. Then later with daddy, he was using both hands but was almost running!

And then he started to crawl towards me.  So I said no no, Mommy wants to take a picture of you putting the ball into the giraffe’s mouth.  And you know what he did?  My smart little guy turned around the shoved the ball into the giraffe’s mouth!

On Saturday I was asked my favorite part of motherhood… I answered, Celebrating all the small things (I think that is also another way of saying seeing the world through a child’s eyes).  Who knew that I would get all excited because my baby shoved a ball into a Giraffe’s mouth

And for reference he is wear a onesie that his cousin painted for him at the baby shower last November.  Any guesses as to his cousin’s name?

Scott said that yesterday when Henry was standing near the brick border surrounding one of the trees outside, he was leaning over a bit and then just let go and stood there and then put his hands back down. So, things should be getting really interesting soon. Lots of times while cruising he barely has a hand down. And he seems to think the green wire on his Supermaze provides enough support to both pull himself up and to remain standing. Okay, he doesn’t really “pull” himself up these days. The hand is just there for balance as he stands up. Daycare also said that he likes to push the baby doll stroller around (which is a big step along the walking path from his walker).

While this is all great news, I’ve been in a bit of a funk since I got some tragic news at work earlier this week. On Sunday one of my co-workers lost his wife and sister while on vacation in Hawaii.

What do you have planned?

We are supposed to go to the Waterford Fair with Catherine and Noah tomorrow.  But I’m still thinking about it.  Henry had a fever Wednesday night/Thursday morning and while that is much better, the doctor said he has a eye infection (DH said something about infected tear duct I think).  By Saturday morning, he’ll have been on antibiotics over 24 hours, so I think it should be okay… but I don’t want Noah to get anything since his health is so fragile still.  The doctor said that he isn’t contagious but also said to make sure we wash our hands.  That might just be because we are touching his eyelids to get the ointment in.

On a side note, just before I joined the band (5.5 years ago), they had a group photo taken.  At the Feb concert this year they had a photographer come and take some new photos.  I wasn’t playing that concert (maternity leave).  I usually sit in the center of the front row between the 1st oboe and the 1st clarinet.  Just imagine me in all the photos… and this little guy in the back row.