Eddie Update

I've been having a bit of blogger's block lately and haven't been able to think of anything interesting to post. But, I feel like a new post is overdue, so I figured I would give a general update on Eddie and his antics. So here are a few fun facts about Ed:

Eddie is a singer. The two songs he sings are "I Love to See the Temple" and "No More Monkeys." Sometimes these songs get combined into one. He's getting better at remembering the words. He used to sing "No temple day! No temple day!" but now he sings "I goin' temple! I goin' temple... no monkey bed." It's precious, as you can imagine. He loves seeing the temple and insists on seeing it out the window before naps and bedtime. He also points out every church we pass while riding in the car and can even say "Moroni," which sounds like, "Oh Why."

Eddie has recently become obsessed with tractors. I'm not sure what brought it on, but I remember him asking what something was, and I told him it was a tractor. So now he keeps his eyes peeled for "trackas" everywhere we go.

Here is Eddie when he got upset that there was no mail on Sunday.

Eddie loves to play outside. He gets excited whenever I ask if he will go with me to get the mail. If I even go near the front door, he'll start saying, "Side? Mail!" So I generally try to avoid that area of the house unless I am prepared to go out. His new favorite thing to do outside is to play on "big hills." He likes to climb them and he likes to run back down. One day on our walk around the block, he realized that we were walking uphill (a very gradual uphill), but he insisted on turning around and running down the hill at least 4 times before I forced him to move on. He also discovered puddles last week when it rained and had to stomp in every puddle we saw as we walked around the block.

Eddie will put himself in time-out and thinks time-outs are funny. We're not really sure how to impress the seriousness of punishment on him. He will stand in the corner and press his little face as far into the corner as he can. Then every once in a while, he will turn to smile at us and either go back to the corner or try to run away.

Eddie's favorite foods are pizza, noodles (noons), bread (dread), and dip-dip. He doesn't care what kind of dip-dip he has, as long as he has some. He eats it with a fork, or just with his hands. Occasionally he dips other foods into it, like strawberries in mustard or grapes in ketchup. He likes pretty much everything he tries, but refuses to try some things on principle (like chicken). We often find ourselves telling him that a certain food tastes just like something else he likes in order to get him to try it. He doesn't usually fall for that trick any more, but it is how we got him to try bacon (which we told him was like a cracker) and now he loves bacon.

Eddie went through a phase where he didn't like to snuggle or hug, so I am very happy that he now likes to "huggle." He will climb up on the couch for huggles, or will huggle at the grocery store while hanging out of the shopping cart. If he wants attention, that is his sure-fire way of getting it, because who could resist Eddie and his huggles?

Bippity Boppity Boo

It always seems to be windy in our neck of the woods. I think this is because the community is so new, thus there are no full grown trees to slow the wind down.

Aching for some sunshine without getting blown away, we invited ourselves up to Christie's neighborhood on Saturday afternoon.

We went to the "Princess Park," which features great old school playground fixtures like this pumpkin carriage.

Bouncing is one of Eddie's new favorite pastimes. On a related not, having to change a dirty diaper after said bouncing is not nearly as enjoyable.

Eddie and Kyle had all sorts of fun making a two man train down the slide.

Wild Things

After spending Sunday evening hunting eggs with the Barton cousins, we got to enjoy more cousin fun on Monday. Thanks to Spring Break, all the cousins got to go to the zoo together. The past few times we have gone, it has been just Eddie and I, so going with such a large group was quite the change. Luckily, it was supposed to snow that day, so the zoo was not crowded. Unfortunately, it was cold and hailed on us a bit. It was still fun despite the weather.

At first, Eddie was not interested in being at the zoo. We pulled into the parking lot and he immediately started saying "no! no!" As if the zoo is a torturous experience or something. After getting in the gates, Christie and I wrestled Eddie into his stroller, amidst flying shoes and agonizing screams. Once he was in, he got over it. But he was not interested in any of the animals until after we ate, which means he missed out on half off the zoo. His loss, I suppose. We stopped off at the rhino statue to get a photo of all the kids together.


I think it turned out surprisingly well, all things considered. Especially if you see the group photo from the previous day.

Eddie's hands-down favorite part is the small animal building (a.k.a. the reptile house). This is mainly because he gets out of the stroller and it is warm and enclosed. It is also because he can actually see some of the animals up close. Here are Eddie and Sarah, checking out a turtle:


Of course we had to stop off at the carousel. Eddie's mommy is too cheap to let him ride it, mostly because I think he would scream the whole time. Instead, Eddie and Kyle hung out on the sidelines:

Bubbles

Eddie loves bubbles. On Tuesday before the recent snowstorm hit, Eddie and I enjoyed an afternoon outside, letting the ridiculous wind blow bubbles for us.

Eddie refused to let me hold the wand, even to show him the proper technique. I tried to get him to hold the wand straight out so the wind would make bubbles, but he just wanted to keep dunking the wand, then waving it frantically, then dunking it again. Luckily, it was windy enough that we still managed to see some bubbles. Occasionally, he would hold it up to his mouth to try to blow bubbles, but would just end up licking the wand and saying "Yummy."

It is virtually impossible to get a photo of Ed with a smile these days, but I managed it by saying, "oogily boogily" just before snapping the shot.