Golden Pig Tales

Ezra attended his first ever da vinci days gathering this weekend. As Kalab said, this experience included the Daddies show on Friday night. It also included more music, ice cream, french fries, bouncy walks, mazes, balloons, walking, carrying, running, crying, almost losing a binky, an aborted trip to the wave science research center, bike-sculptures shaped like cats, slugs, tiki bars, and other weird things, a lot of fish art, and several trips to the new Corvallis transit bus that was on display at the entrance to da Vinci days. All this in just 2 days!

I think Ezra’s favorite part was where we sat on this new bus, and I sang many many different verses of “wheels on the bus”

When Ezra is being carried on hip and not wanting to be put down, his legs clamp kidney and side of stomach. His body tenses, and the more one pries Ezra from hip and stomach the more the thighs press against stomach.

This usually happens when we are outside, and he doesn’t want to walk all the way to the main street or the busy intersection to watch cars.

Fortunately, while watching cars, he doesn’t feel to need to be held as long as cars are passing allowing his thighs of steel to rest and my numb back sore form holding him to relax.

Ezra is awake. He is awake and fussing. I tried for the past minutes to calm him, but my longest attempt to calm, fifteen minutes of walking around with him in the Ergo Baby, ended with him waking during the transfer from Ergo Baby to crib. I tried to sooth him by rubbing his back, but that didn’t work. He’s very tired but excited making him cranky and fussy. I think the run practice he and I did earlier caused him to be tired and excited. All the laughing he did as I jumped around like a fool probably had a similar effect of waking and exciting a tired Ezra. Now Ezra is now being soothed by -v-.

I believe Ezra likes to sit and crawl on hardwood floors more than rugs or carpets. I believe this because when Corralling Ezra he always crawls to the hardwood floor if there are no power cords to play with on the rug.

I don’t know if he likes the smooth surface of the hardwood floor. Or if he likes how the hardwood floor is easier to slide the knees over. Or maybe he likes the challenge of the slippery surface of the hardwood floor that probably makes the sliding of knees easier, but causes the balance and hold of hands and knees difficult because it has more slip than the rug? He does not fall more when on the hardwood floor, but when he falls he falls fast and hard. He always crawls back to it even when I put him on the rug after a fall. Maybe he likes the hard surface? Maybe he likes the fact the corral’s only moving door is a journey over the hardwood floor?

Ezra appears to like the hardwood in part because it is where we some times put our shoes and bags, which are other object Ezra likes to play with and try to put in his mouth. But now that we are Corralling Ezra in this area, the bags and shoes are usually moved to another location, and he sits on the hardwood floor and crawls on the hardwood floor and some times hits head the hardwood floor.

Ezra crawling on floor at YOU! (It could be easier to view by leaning head to the left. Or you could just imagine Ezra is Spiderbaby.):

Ezra’s crawling is getting better. He can some times move over the floor using his hands, arms, feet, legs, chest and stomach, but when he is moving across the floor with this method he doesn’t move far, and he looks like a sea turtle crawling on the beach to lay its eggs. Some times the inability to move with this method to reach an object will cause enough stress that one may think Ezra was laying eggs. The only thing Ezra lays is his face to the ground after a session of flailing arms and legs, which isn’t bad as long as he didn’t spit-up prior to head hitting ground and rise with a face covered with spit-up and saliva, but with a face covered with spit-up he is usually smiling.