Tyler: Week Something

We've gotten a lot better at getting Tyler to laugh. One of his favorite jokes is for us to make silly noises. It's pretty much the only joke we've been able to tell him so far, but he hasn't gotten tired of it yet. He's also getting much stronger, though still in tiny increments. He's briefly been able to pull himself up into crawling position, which means I need to get on this whole 'babyproof the house' thing without too much delay. This may require significant changes to the entertainment center and cable management in general. We have a lot of power cords around here. (Power Chords?)

He gets really excited when he wants to stand up, too. He arches his back and flexes his tiny little ab muscles. Then I give him both my thumbs and tell him to pull and he pulls himself up. So two thumbs up is currently baby sign language for 'go ahead and stand up'. He is a world champion sleeper, too. He's gotten so good that as soon as he recognizes that he's in his room, he doesn't even want to be rocked anymore. He just wants to get put in his crib so he can get down to the important job of sleeping all night. What a great baby.

This weekend we took him out to his first time at the swimming pool. It was the smallest “time spent at pool” to “required effort before and after” in the history of mankind. We had to assemble all the stuff, and there was rather a lot of it, and then eat some food because we were hungry, and then we walked to the pool. Once there we got Tyler in his cute little swimming gear and just tooled around in the wading pool. He didn't play too much, but he enjoyed the scenery if nothing else. And we got some really cute pictures. Jess said he was done after only about half an hour or an hour at the pool, and I thought she was being silly until I saw his little farmers tan later in the afternoon. Too much more sun and he would have been pushing sunburn territory, so I'm glad Jess insisted on heading home when we did. Though afterwords we had to hang up all the towels and swimsuits, so there was definitely a lot of effort all around.

I've gone into the last two weekends with the intent of trying to write some music, but so far nothing has come of it. I'm trying to think of a way to concoct an entire idea for a song before I get too deep into the writing and burn myself out on any one particular sound. I've tried visualizing some ideas, but so far nothing has stuck. If I figured out a better method and manage to create something, you all will be the first to know.

-N