Okay, okay!

I can take a hint.  Four lovely friends have tagged me (Erin, Michele, Jennifer & Heather).  I get it.  I’m woefully behind in my blogging.  In fact, I pretty much suck at blogging right now.  In my defense, running after a one-year old is a lot of work and I’ve been sick for the last week.

Anyway, enough of my excuses, and onto the tag:

I’m going to shake this up a bit and write about Dagim instead of me.

1.  He loves to dance.  He even dances to NPR.  No joke.  Do you know anyone else who can dance to NPR?  In the mornings, we go downstairs, I put him in his highchair and turn on the radio.  Whenever a musical interlude (even just a few beats) come on, he dances in his highchair.  It’s adorable.

2.  One day he said the word “diaper” clear as day.  Since then, I’ve been trying to get him to say it again.  The downside of this is that he now constantly says “didi.”  He’ll say this and tap his diaper when it’s dirty.  He has realized that this gets him attention and he now does it when his diaper is not dirty.

3.  Speaking of diapers, we’ve switched to cloth diapers.  Well, we’re still in the “trial” phase thanks to Jillian’s Drawers – an awesome company in Ithaca, NY that I can’t say enough good things about it.  They have a fantastic program called “Changing Diapers, Changing Minds” which allows you to try cloth diapers for 21-days for $10.  I’m in love with cloth.  Seriously.  It’s about the only thing I’ve talked about or thought about in the last week and a half.  I was worried about the ick factor but it’s not bad at all.  Really.  And I love washing the diapers at night.  I end my evenings feeling like I accomplished something that is good for my son and the earth.  And there’s something so down-home and wholesome about that stack of clean cloth diapers.

4.  Dagim is becoming a picky eater.  When we first got him, he would eat anything and everything.  I preferred that.  Now he’ll squeeze his lips together and look at me like I’m crazy to offer him whatever offensive food is in front of him.  And half the time it’s something that he used to eat quite happily.  Apparently that’s how toddlers roll.

5.  He picked out his first pumpkin recently.  Then he repeatedly dropped it on the ground.  On purpose.

6.  One of his favorite toys is a shopping cart.  He loves to push it around the house and down the street, putting all kinds of toys or leaves or whatever inside it.  Mommy’s version of a shopping cart is an online icon.

7.  Every morning he empties his crib of his bottle, blanket and bunny.  Sometimes he throws them out, onto the floor.  If I get to him before he’s done this, he shuffles around in his crib to gather up these items and hand them to me.  If I put the bunny back in the crib, he picks it up again, gives it a kiss and hands it back to me.  Usually, when all these objects are out, he’ll turn on his crib fish tank that plays music and start dancing.

Here are some recent pictures, which will hopefully make up for my tardy post (if anyone is still bothering to read this blog):

I’m tagging the following peeps:

Katie at Surrender to the Flow

Ashley at Eden Horse Farms

Jana at Eyes Toward Ethiopia

Erica at Home for Haven

Gretchen at Our Journey to Jayden

Christine at Christine’s Journey

Jess at The Soucys Go to Ethiopia