Update on Starfish recovery- week 1

Starfish was destarred a week ago. Here is an update:

Steps. Ethan has crawled a lot, and will 'cruise' around the house holding on to things such as the wall, couch, etc. He will hold my hand and walk with his little duck feet turned out, but hasn't begun to walk on his own yet. This is still a major success for Ethan since I didn't think he would be even cruising around yet.

Smell. Ethan doesn't smell like stanky cast anymore! He still smells when he has a dirty diaper, but it turns out that's normal.

Sleep. Starfish is back to taking naps! Yahhoooooo! He seems to take better naps when Jared is home with him then when I am here. Hmmmmm..... what does husband know that I don't?


Today was an especially funny day with the former starfish. It was my first time going to a store with him without the cast, and I was able to put him in shopping cart (or "buggy" as so many Southerners insist on calling it). I may have moved here in 1989, but I am still not converted to calling a cart a "buggy." So Hobby Lobby was calling my name around 4pm (when Ethan abruptly awakened from his nap after only 45 min and didn't fall back asleep). I obeyed the calling, and we went. Ethan did pretty good in the cart. Except that every car he saw, he thought he needed. The way I've decided to deal with this at the present time is to allow him to play with the toy and then before we leave we give it to the cashier and make a mad dash out of the building while he screams. It's worked well so far. I only have to apologize for the slober on the various toys as I give them back to the cashier, poor soul. So today by the time we were at the register, I had to return about 7 cars we had picked up throughout the shopping experience. If it's really chewed on I do buy it. I know, this is kinda gross and I need to be okay with buying a toy knowing some other little child prob chewed and slobered on it. But I am okay with that.

So when we got to the checkout line, the cashier starting totaling up the purchases. Ethan saw my credit card and started grunting for it (yes, grunting. we are working on words). I gave it to him to play with, and he then reached out for the place where you swipe the credit card and made that motion with the card.... AHHHHHHHHH!!!! He's SEEN ME DO IT! HE KNOWS! the little consumer has watched mommy swipe that card a few times and knows the drill. how embarassing. it's similar to when we pull up through a drive through and he starts licking his lips for some fries, only to find out the bank teller is different than McDonalds. That's what's funny about living your life through the eyes of a child. You get to see the patterns they pick up on, and quickly realize what has become so normal in your life (the swiping of a credit card & the drive through, among others). scary.

So I brought mini me home tonight and prayed for him, that he would learn to use cash and not overspend on credit, among other prayers.

That's the update for now, but as funny stories arise, there will be more.