It's June

Wow, time is flying! This is actually a photo from earlier in May, but it shows how much fun we can have. As anyone who calls us on the phone during waking hours can attest, Elliott loves to "talk" and laugh, especially if he can get his hands on the phone and make the lights beep and the face turn orange.

I wanted to add a few things after yesterday's longer update post. The sitter today said she could have parked Elliott outside in front of the school playground for an hour. He loves watching other kids and apparently just sat there in the stroller clapping his hands. I've known this, but hearing a mother of three say it has me reconsidering a part-time home day care option where he will be around other children. Our sitter, Doris, won't be available as much in the summer or next school year, and though we may have found an evening sitter, I think it would be nice to have a regular daytime thing, even if it's for only half of one day. In September we will start Elliott in a cooperative preschool 9:30-12:30 at the Unitarian church where we got married, just one day a week. They usually have three adults to six children under age two (at the beginning of the year). We have Elliott on a day when most of the kids are on the older side. But it might be nice to also have another person who could watch him if I need an appointment on a different day of the week, and it might be nice to be able to be in my house during that time. Today I got a teeth cleaning and then spent two hours at a restaurant with wireless Internet. It was really nice. When I came home, Elliott had been asleep for an hour, and he stayed asleep until I made noise that woke him up.

Things change so quickly that I forget them if I don't write often enough. Right now Elliott's favorite food is watermelon. He is also enjoying raw goat milk cheese (we think he's doing fine with it but he hadn't eaten it in big quantities until this evening), rice crackers (a must for any outing, especially the vegetable ones - sigh), sunflower seed butter on rice cake, chicken apple sausage (he'll eat a whole link), rice pasta, hummus, peas, carrot, celery, banana, and apple. He will take his cod liver oil straight from the spoon and will eat a little coconut milk if I feed it to him that way. He still doesn't much like sweet potatoes and rejects some foods but usually will try most anything that's put on his tray if we leave it there long enough after he's eaten the stuff he wants - egg, spinach, turkey, zucchini. We think he's gained some weight, and people tell us he looks bigger and taller, but he's still small for his age. We're due for an appt soon. I've been taking a cooking class based on Nourishing Traditions and hope to make more things from scratch in the near future (including nut butter and ketchup). Also, this week we will start getting our CSA share, and I'm looking forward to having reason to try new vegetables.