Saturday, May 22, 2010

Arlo: 11 Months Plus

Dear future Arlo,

Hey, check out what you're doing, right now in May 2010: Wildly shaking your head no because you think that's fun. Painting highchairs and pants with destroyed blackberries. Picking up plastic keys, stuffed animals--okay, pretty much anything we set down beside you--then moving it to the other side of yourself. And then moving it back. And then back the other way. And then...you get the picture.

Eating noses. Going dah-dah-dah-DAH-DAH like you've got peanut butter in your mouth. Playing unintentional ring toss in the bath with your circular bathtub chew toy and your baby dangle. Standing at our curio cabinet and courageously grabbing the seashell (you used to be afraid of it). Batting at the vines in the little garden outside. Batting, from on your back, the little dangly mirror hung from the dangly mirror supporter for fifteen minutes at a time (thank you). Lying naked on the bed after your bath, holding your breath, then laughing, when we bounce a little towel on your face. Crapping, red-faced and serious, in your highchair, like clockwork, after dinner. Moving your fuzzy head left, right, left, right on our shoulders when you're trying to go to sleep. Sleeping eleven hours straight (thank you, thank you, thank you).











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