This past week was Ebby's first week with real food. If rice cereal could be called real. Which it can't, of course. He was completely disinterested when I (Andrew) first tried to feed him, but he did much better with Joy on his second attempt. He's still dissatisfied with the taste, but we think that's the taste of the water rather than the cereal. Although, given the blandness of the cereal, it may not be the taste of the water after all.
Ebby is also starting to try to talk, moving his mouth and tongue to mimick us as we chatter away to him in half-comprehensible sentences. It is the awesomest thing ever, not least of all because he hasn't quite figured out yet that talking requires you to move air past your vocal cords. So half the time he's 'talking' no sound comes out, and he ends up looking like a dubbed movie character. Nothing quite like watching a live-action version of the 'Meet the Robinsons' Asian film spoof.

Take That!

So the fact that Ebby didn't have any type of mobile to play with was driving me crazy. So, lucky me, I found one for like 5 bucks. Yeah! Unfortunately Ebby doesn't like playing with it the "proper way". Oh well, at least he's playing with it, right?

Boo!

Happy Halloween

Ebby's first Halloween was great! Both Andrew and I are pretty dead. We have another D&D session this Friday that I'm trying to get ready for (19 miniatures!) and Andrew has another test on Friday. Yeah and Yuck. Anyway, so we're really tired and we're not going to write a lot. Suffice it to say Ebby looked great as a bee - as you can see. I was a peasant whatever and Andrew was a doctor. Since he's not a doctor yet we figured it was still allowed.