Faster, stronger....

Odin can creep along at nearly 12 inches in 10 seconds! It's hard to keep track of him! He loves chasing after things like remotes, game controllers, and things that make noise. He always goes for something specific, he never just wanders around.

We've had to upgrade him to size 3 diapers, he's getting so big!

He's also babbling a lot now; he pronounces lots more consonants and he sticks to some of them depending on his mood. Like, he'll go with da, and ba when he's curious, and wa, and ra, if he's hungry or wants to be changed. We can also get him to laugh really easily now.

Great-great

Odin's Great-great-aunt Rose came and visited yesterday. She's really good with Odin and she came to our place today and we got these pictures:

New Bumbo!

Here's a few pictures of Odin in the Bumbo we got him.

Points for skill

40pmh diaper change!

Odin blew it out all over Alyssa's lap on the bus and he was so messy
we couldn't set him anywhere, so I decided to just change him rather
than make us trade off holding him in the air because we'd be on the
bus for another 20 minutes. So I changed him right on the seat, and
one of my record times too!

First Fall

Odin just fell off our bed, it's his first fall. Luckily, he just slid off the edge so it was only a few inches, but it made a big thud. He's perfectly fine, but it was scary.

Yay

Paula brought over a bumbo that she got us yesterday. It helps Odin learn to sit up and use his abs, and it's really good for feeding him while he's sitting in it.

Ann and Emily came over and played for a while. Odin gets along with them well, which is good because we hang out with them a lot. He has his longest, hardest laughing fit on our bed while we were getting ready to go out shopping.

We've started watching Juniper at 5 in the morning now, but she just comes in the bed with us and Odin and falls back asleep and Odin doesn't seem to mind. They like playing together.

Doctor Visit

We took Odin to see Dr. Bradshaw since Dr. Dzubay is not available. His stool has been green and he's been spitting up a lot. She said there was nothing to worry about, the color can be because of how fast he's digesting, and the spitting up wasn't alarming. So apparently nothing is wrong, but it was still good to go make sure.

Movies!

Expect more of these....

We were sent a video of Juniper (Brandy's daughter whom we often babysit) trying to talk to her father, Jon. We showed it to Odin and he just cracked up.


Odin is creeping along our bed. Song is "Perilous Journey" from Halo.

Poor guy....

Odin's been a little upset lately. He got sick from his shots again and he's back on Prevacid to help the reflux, it's been giving him a stomach ache too. He's been a little more fussy and he's spitting up more, but he'll get through it.

Jeepers creepers!

Odin can creep around! It's not really crawling; he kinda drags himself around. He can lift his chest up, and his butt, but never at the same time. Usually he doesn't really roll around much on the floor, but yesterday he started rolling all over the place and today he started dragging himself around! Now we can't keep track of him!

He also responds to his name almost perfectly. If he isn't distracted, he'll look you right in the eye if you say his name in a non-baby-talk voice.

Flail

Odin laughs a lot now. It's easy to get him to do it, you can tickle him or bounce him around, or make him fly. He really loves lying on our bed while I jump on it a little bit.

We think he's getting a bit of bad reflux again because he's been spitting up a bit more. We're gonna call the doctors office later today. This happened the last time he had shots, so we think that's what caused it, we just wanna get ahead of it before it really gets bad.

He's also developed this arm flail thingy he likes to do. His right arm swings up above his head and then down and hits his leg, rotating at the shoulder. He does it no matter where he is and we don't know why. He does it while holding toys and they go flying, he does it while he's falling asleep, and sometimes he's just sitting there and staring and his arm is waving. It looks like he doesn't even know he's doing it, but sometimes you can tell he's enjoying it. It's really funny actually.

Poor Odin

Odin has been up crying a lot more and spitting up a bit, he even had a low-grade fever. It's because of the shots he got on Monday. He has more muscle in his leg now so it's able to hurt more. He's starting to get better, but you can tell in his cry that he's in pain. It's almost unbearable.

4 month check-up

Well, Odin just got some more shots, but he took it like a champ.

He's now 25.5 inches (75%), 15lbs 6.5oz (70%), and had a 17 inch head (75%).

Our trip

Saturday morning we took Odin to the Farmer's Market, which is totally better than the one in Eugene, and he absolutely loved it. We had fresh-baked biscuits and just-made tamales while Mom danced around with Odin to the band that was playing. We wandered around a bit and Odin soaked up all the people who kept looking at him and telling him how cute he was.

Later that day, Alyssa and I went for a trip around town and took Odin to Finnegans. He kept looking at the hand puppets so we decided to get him one. We showed him one and it made him smile, and we kept trying more and with each new one he smiled a bit more until we got to this really ugly monster thingy and he just laughed. He laughed more than we'd ever heard him laugh, like, a laugh out loud, not a baby giggle, and for a really long time. So we showed him a few others and he smiled, but when we went back to that monster, he laughed again, so we just had to get it.

Uncle Danny came over and was really good with him. We also took him to Mom's boss' birthday party because she wanted to show him off. He liked the attention for a while but all the people overwhelmed him after a few minutes.

On Sunday we went to the Zoo. I haven't been since I was a kid and Alyssa had only been twice, and we figured Odin ought to go. He slept through a lot of it, but he really seemed to like the animals. There was a big, walk-in cage for the Lorikeets and they were flying over to people's shoulders and stuff so Odin was able to get really close. He loved looking at them, they were so colorful. After that, Auntie Paula came over and just loved hanging out with him, and then Kyle came while she was leaving and thought Odin was just really cool.

He slept most of the train ride home. I'm sure he had a really great time. I'll put some pictures up later today.

First train ride

Odin has been screaming and squealing like a maniac. Mostly he knows he is the one making those sounds so he's having fun doing it, but he's also developed a few that mean certain things. Like, there's one for "pay attention to me" and one for "give me that toy" and what not.

Also, in an hour or so we are taking Amtrak to Portland so Odin will have his first train ride!

Pictures!

I've finally finished gathering all the pictures of Odin that we have and putting them into a decent online photo album. This should be everything we've got.

Pictures of Odin

(I also updated the link list on the side of the page.)

Ah crap....

Baby poop doesn't easily come out of carpet.

Teeth!

We took Odin over to his grandmother's (Paula's) house to visit with her, Matt, Denise, Rylie, and great-grandpa George. Based on some behavior that everyone observed, there was a general consensus that Odin is now teething.

It makes sense too; he's been more fussy, having a hard time taking naps, and he chews on stuff a lot more. We have a teething ring that you can freeze but Paula gave us some little reusable ice-cube thingies and he really likes them. We also bought him some baby food at the store. We got the organic kind that literally has nothing in it except one ingredient. We got him sweet potatoes, peas, and bananas. We gave him the bananas half an hour ago. He loved 'em! He kept demanding more all the time and it got everywhere! It was really cool though. He's been reaching for our food a lot and he hated that rice cereal but he really liked this stuff. We're gonna keep giving it too him once in a while so he can get the idea of eating more to add calories to his diet.

Whatever makes you feel good

We've discovered that Odin really likes being naked.

Sometimes when he's crying, we take off his clothes and un-do his diaper to change him and he quites right down. So we tried just undressing him when he's upset an he loves it. He likes to just lie around with nothing on and have fun.