Procrastination

As you all may have noticed, my original goal of weekly blog posts has stretched to monthly posts.  We might start posting weekly photos instead of waiting until we have something clever to say or until Elliott does something awesome.  But, no promises.

Elliott actually has had some major achievements lately, which I will list:

1. Drooling (maybe teething), and more drooling.  No teeth yet, but he's getting good at chewing on his own fingers to soothe the gum pain.  Note the bibs in the rest of the photos.  These have become necessary if he doesn't want to sit in his cold wet clothes all day.
 
2. Sleeping from 8AM to 8PM, in his crib, waking up 2-4 times. On some of these wake-ups he fusses and goes back to sleep on his own. Woohoo!  He has even started falling asleep whiles sitting calmly:

3. Rolling over.  Don't get too excited. He has done this 2-3 times, front to back, and usually when he's mad. No pictures of rolling over since they would only capture the end results....but here he is dancing in his jumper:

4. Playing independently on his play mat:

And grabbing for toys:

5. Perfecting a smile that wins me over every time:

 

6. Playing peek-a-boo:

7. Swinging!!!!  As you can tell, he likes it.

8. Practicing his Zoolander Blue Steel look:

You may have thought my title (procrastination) had something to do with not writing blog posts.  Although true, I'm actually using this post to procrastinate right now.  My residency application is due tomorrow, and what better way to avoid the stress than by hanging out with Elliott and showing all of you his cuteness?  Today we went for our longest jog since January (1.5 miles woohoo) and stopped at the swings.  As far as the ideal procrastination aid, nothing beats Elliott's squeals of delight as I stride down a hill or push him in the swings.