Climber - March 12

The past month has been...what new can we climb. With Eric being so little, climbing onto things has proven to be somewhat difficult. As you all saw from the video last year, he can get onto a kitchen chair. But up until a couple of weeks ago, that was really the only day he did it. Now you can't keep him from getting on one. And, he'll go between two of them like he's stepping stones.

What he lacks in height he's made up in ingenuity. He'll use the magazine rack on the side of Paul's end table to launch himself over the arm of Paul's chair to get into that. And use that same table to get on the new couch. He get in trouble for that because we try to keep him from climbing on tables. He's used his little "Cars" foam chair to get into the over sized chair (in the background of picture below). Now he uses a basket to get on the blanket chest (a table he's also not supposed to be climbing on) and then over the arm of the chair. If I could draw arrows on the picture I would.

Eric's exersaucer has been in the den unused, for...forever. Well, at least until wanting to walk became a priority. Occasionally, he'd stop and play with something. Lately he'd actually want to sit in it. I finally decided to put it away until the next kiddo came along. Someone thought it was a cool thing to climb into with it all folded down. So, it is not put away but in the living room as you can see from the picture...

Putting earphones in his ear...

Here we are after just waking up with "Ginger Bear" and hair we can't do a thing with...

Here's the baby blanket I made (crochet and woven with fleece) for the APOP (adoptive parent outreach program) 4th Annual Chili Cook off silent auction...

Eric with former Cincinnati Bengal David Fulcher. He was a judge for the cook off. David was nice enough to sign the picture I took of the two of them from last year. You see that Eric has had a haircut.

Last year's...

The three armed baby!

A few days ago there was spider crawling across the rug and Monster Kitty was there. He didn't see it so I was trying to get him to notice it (figured it could become a kitty snack), so I was putting his face where he would see it, but the kid scared him off. Eric I guess watched me just enough that he started taking his "Ginger Bear" and holding it's face down on the spider. The spider was picked up by Eric, dropped, bear forced on it, stuck to bear, on the floor, back between Eric's fingers, back to bear....needless to say I'm not sure where the spider carcass ended. It was just so cute watching him with his bear and the spider.

Here are a couple of videos. Eric like the Swiffer, so video #1 is my Swiffer boy. Video #2 is the shoe fiend. He has daddy's shoes and those are pretty big shoes to fill.