One nap down, one to go

(Note: I had a longer post, but blogger decided to wig out on me when I uploaded a photo and I lost the posting. So this is an abridged version.)

Looks like LR has settled into a brand new routine. With the new teeth came a growth spurt and a change in his wakeup and nap times. (You might be able to see the new top teeth in the first photo.) He has slept in until 7am each morning for the last week and then takes a long late morning nap. They range from 2-3 hours. Then he skips his second afternoon nap, although I have caught him taking a siesta around 5pm if we happen to be in the car. He gets a little cranky in the evenings because of the missed nap, but each day seems to reinforce the new schedule and he's getting accustomed to it.

The long weekend has been nice, but Saturday was overcast and misty and it rained all Sunday. Saturday we went to Costco and picked up a couple mag flashlights, one for each car. Each flashlight came with a small, LR-sized flashlight which he had a ton of fun playing with when we got home. This is the only picture that came out at all, and yes, he's eating the flashlight. Daddy had a hard time with the sound of his new teeth against the metal. This weekend he discovered he could click his top teeth together with his bottom teeth. So much fun!

Sunday we had a pre-season meeting with the rugby staff. We took LR and he was very well behaved. He kept them all entertained (and sometimes distracted). Then he took some time to explore their apartment and even wanted to be put in the bath when he found it. And by the way, college housing is the opposite of baby-proofed. Our friends without kids have nice things that we have to keep him away from so that he doesn't break them, but in college housing, we have to keep him away from the dirty and the sharp things. There is no 5 second rule in their apartments. LR dropped string cheese he had been working on and that was the end of that.

This morning we took a nice long walk using the large backpack our last tenants left us. It's perfect for carrying him in the Fells, the large reservation that abuts our neighborhood. He started out humming since the bounce of Daddy's step felt like how we sometimes bounce him to sleep. The hum turned into a song that lasted about 30 minutes out of our 40 minute walk. He's been experimenting with volume, but not by screaming. He hits a loud note "Ahhhhh" and holds it for a very long time. Daddy and I had to almost yell to talk to eachother, but it was so funny that we didn't mind. Hopefully we get to spend the rest of the day out on the deck or at the park.