Downs

• Another bad night. This one was partly my fault. I heard him crying at 1am and got up to give him some more ibuprofen. However, I felt bad leaving him in misery until the medicine kicked in so I picked him up to rock him. Big mistake. This woke Calvin up completely. He burbled happily and patted my face and seemed to have no inclination to go back to sleep. I kept trying to have him lay his head down which he’d do for a minute but then would pop up burbling again. Once I realized my mistake, I put him back in his crib and went back to bed. He cried for the next hour. *sigh*

Ups

• I got Calvin’s car seat checked out. Other than a few minor modifications, I had installed it correctly. Apparently they recommend that the versa tether strap be attached to the front car seat track.
• Since I needed to get Calvin’s car seat checked out, I wasn’t sure when I was going to be able to do dinner. However, I ended up making it during Calvin’s morning nap and it worked out fairly well.

Cute Calvin Moment

• Calvin really enjoys playing the piano. Before he started being able to crawl over and bang on the keys while standing, I would sit him in my lap and let him bang on the piano. Tonight, I decided to sit him on my lap again. He definitely gets more force behind his banging that way and can also hit the black keys. Calvin adored it. He banged from one end of the piano to the other and back again all the while bobbing his head fiercely and grinning like a maniac. He looked like a mad little composer.

Simplification

• For lunch today, I used up one of the packaged dinners I had bought eons ago. Every so often I buy packaged dinners thinking they’d be good to have on hand in an emergency. However, Jaeger refuses to eat them and they just sit on the shelf taking up space. Now I have one less box cluttering my pantry.