Waking up Hayden

Thursday, 12 October 2006

A few interesting things have happened the last couple days as I’ve gotten Hayden out of bed.
Yesterday: I got Hayden up in the morning. He was wearing footless fleece PJs, but one of his feet was missing. Somehow, he’d worked his diaper off and squished it down into the leg of his PJs. He was a little messy (but not as bad as it could have been!). It was a sample that came in the mail; we will not be buying that type of diaper.
Today: I got Hayden after his nap. I was hoping he’d sleep longer. Sigh. I come in, and he’s grabbed the baby monitor from the nursery cart next to his bed. When I came in, it was in the crib, a good foot away from where it had once been. I wish I’d seen how he did that!
And here’s a video from a month ago of waking up Hayden. Blogger has been really evil about letting me post videos here lately. I can’t login from Google Video after I click the “Post to blog” button and I can’t get the HTML code to work over here. Grr. I do not like Blogger Beta. Well, I don’t like its bugs. It’s now reposted a bunch of old posts to my RSS twice and giving me all kinds of trouble now that it’s merged with my Google account (mostly because I have two Google accounts. Stupid Google people. Why would people want only one account when they could have two?!). End rant.
Knitting, writing, listening… I can’t believe I’ve gotten into listening to podcasts. Mostly it’s just the Daily SearchCast, but I discovered an awesome knitting podcast, Cast-On. It’s like NPR, only all about knitting. And fewer annoying piano ditties. But I get paid to listen to SearchCast, so that’s what I’ll go do now.
PS—The second picture is a “thanks again” to my sister-in-law Toria for all the adorable baby clothes. Hayden goes out in style (especially Sundays) thanks to you and your boys!

Get up, stand up

Thursday, 21 September 2006

Ryan got these adorable fleecey jammies for Hayden at Costco. They even glow in the dark. So here’s a picture of Hayden in them:


Oh yeah, and he’s standing up. Pretty impressive, huh?

Okay, so I set him up there. But this is all him:

It’s a bit dark, but the basic idea there is Ryan tosses Hayden down on the Love Sac (Hayden loves that!). Hayden pulls himself from a reclining position to a sitting position, then bends his knees and launches himself at Daddy.

Hayden was over by the TV and quite upset as I was typing this. Then he crawled over between the couch and the loveseat to come find me. Well, me or the cords under the desk. He’s in an I-play-with-all-things-electrical phase lately. He’s got fists like a steel trap and they’re clenched on my mouse cord right now. I guess this into-everything phase is going to last oh, another 17 years.

The debate is over

Tuesday, 12 September 2006

The debate is over!

He’s definitely crawling now!

Big day!

Tuesday, 5 September 2006

A big day for Hayden today, if you think this counts as crawling:

Yes or no?

Well, even if that doesn’t qualify as crawling, it’s still a big day: tooth #2 made its big debut today.

How is Hayden taking it? We’re coming up on hour #2 of trying to put him to bed. If it’s not one thing, it’s another!

Solid!

Friday, 25 August 2006

Hayden had his first solid foods on August 4. By that Sunday, we has pretty excited to be eating pears!

Okay, okay, those weren’t his first bites. He seemed to like it a lot more at the beginning:

Today he tried oatmeal for the first time: definitely more like the first video.

More monkey swingin’!

Monday, 21 August 2006

Swingin’ monkey Hayden strikes again! Warning: There is a frightening twist near the end, but no one was harmed in the making of this movie.

Yes, that’s Auntie Jai. She graduated from BYU this last Friday. Soon she’ll graduate to a big girl swing, too.