much to kelly’s excitement jack has made a friend at day care. of course the expression of friendship between a 7 month old and a 9 month old is taking toys from each other repeatedly. maybe the occasional sticking each other fingers in each other’s mouths. but the true sign of friendship is knowing that each of you have a dirty diaper and being okay with it.
crawling
the latest development in the development category is that jack is now crawling. we were told as soon as he figured it out that he would pick it up quickly. and he has. he’s now following us, mostly kelly, it’s a mom thing, when we leave the room. he’s also pulling himself up on furniture and moving from furniture to furniture. watch out rilla.
september absence
you may have noticed that there weren’t many entries for the month of september. the reason, see the september 2 entry. kelly, jack and i, mostly kelly and i have been sick for the entire month. at the moment i’ve got something in my lungs. the joys of parenthood continue.
daycare
jack finished his first week of daycare today. he’s only in three days a week, but as we discovered that was enough for his parents to worry about him. many of the other infants are about to phase out and move into the toddler room so jack looks really small amongst all these kids that can walk. reagrdless, he still maintains his wonderful personality. we also discovered that barely three days of daycare was enough for jack to pick up a cold from another snotty-faced kid and pass it along to his parents. please pass the tissues and cold medicine. thanks, snotty-faced classmate of jack.
awhile back i think i mentioned that we needed to by another car. well, yesterday we made the full transition and bought another carseat base. two cars, two carseat bases for jack. dad drops him off in the morning in the CRV and mom picks him up in the afternoon in the Civic. also on the target run was a baby gate, a bathtub toy organizer in the shape of a duck of course, and electrical outlet covers. the baby-proofing has begun.
chiacgo, part 3
it’s gotta by the name. the last name. once again as we were going through security at denver international airport we were flagged for a security search. of course we weren’t carrying anything illegal, just a presentation we were making to a client in chicago, a couple of magazines, and a wet diaper. well, jack, you just better get use to it. having an obscure, but beautiful, last name like St. Cyr will cause you trouble from time to time in your life. we can never really know what’s causing these security checks, but it must have something to do with the ccombination of a flight to chicago (this didn’t happen when we flew back to boston just a few weeks prior), the airline, and our last name. other theories are welcome.
we did have a good trip to chicago. jack spent the morning of our presentation with cathleen, a nanny from north shore nannies, a service that was recommended to us by friends. the presentation went well. the client loved the redesign of their magazine. and that night we all had dinner with jade bannister, a second cousin once removed ( or something like that) at a wonderful little italian restaurant in the neighborhood. on saturday we took jack to visit the robie house, a home designed by egomaniacal architect frank lloyd wright, and then spent the afternoon hanging out in millenium park in downtown chicago. sunday morning we flew back to denver to settle in for the fall. our next travels will take us to jacksonville, FL for christmas with jack’s dad’s family.