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?
Ed was more interested in this little watefall than most of the animals.
Love this shot. Neil is clearly not enjoying himself on the rhino.
We got the boys to leave the gorilla's "chest muscles" alone for just long enough to get this one.
The aftermath of the ball fountain incident.
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.
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.
On a recent walk, Eddie was holding Man when he started swinging his legs in a frenzied run and tripped. Man sacrificed his body to protect Eddie's hand from scrapes, but is so perfectly chiseled that he only suffered a small rip in his shirt pocket where his pectoral muscle flexed to break the fall.
Eddie has been teething lately, and asked for Guy when he woke up crying in the middle of the night. Rumor has it that it was Guy who eventually coached Eddie back to sleep when even his parents had given up and shut their bedroom door to muffle the screaming.
In the post 3 Minutes With Eddie I described the work that went into putting Eddie's word video together, and pondered if it was all worth it. 3 months later the answer is clear.
