Skills

Besides walking, which Eddie continues to work on (he's still just going a couple of feet), he has been developing some other skills!

He's getting really good (and loud) at blowing his whistle (a clay one, shaped like a turtle.)  He gives a very realistic fake cough sometimes after Daddy coughs.  He also makes very realistic slurping sounds when he picks up a ladle which we leave for him to play with sometimes (his mother taught him to pretend to drink from it.)

He now cooperates when we're taking his coat off; if he's standing at his bench, after we get one sleeve off, he'll put that arm down for support and raise the other arm for us.  If someone says "peekaboo," he claps his hands over his face to hide, then peeks out. (This is pretty cute.)  And when we ask where his nose is, he points at it!  However, he usually points at it right up to his knuckle.

Around when he turned one and while we were in Ohio, he was doing "pyramids" a lot: putting his head and hands on the ground with his butt sticking up in the air.  That dropped off after a while.  But last week it came back with a vengeance! Now he's doing it with his feet flat on the ground, so it's a taller pyramid than before.

He has pegged how to discard of unwanted items: the other day, he pulled off his sock and tossed it right in to the bathroom trash.  (He knows he's not allowed to pull things out of there—and he's pretty good about that—but nobody said anything about putting stuff in.)