A walk will do a sick baby a world of good. And by a walk I mean a stroller ride. Poor Gavin still feels super cruddy, and is producing super crud as well. I feel like I might be getting sick as well, so, AWESOME. My dream come true.
Gavin was really fussy when he woke up from his second nap so Marilyn and I decided to go for a walk. It was a nice enough day and we figured that it couldn't hurt and it might even help. Sure enough, as soon as we got moving Gavin was lulled and soothed. He babbled and cooed in his cold-induced husky baby voice. It seriously put him in a much better mood.
Gavin hates having his nose wiped. Hates it. You'd think we were trying to put a hot poker in his eye. Even worse, he hates being irrigated. I had to irrigate him once by myself today and he hated it but we got a lot of snot out. Marilyn helped the second time and it was less productive, but much easier with someone else's assistance. Because Gavin's a fighter.
He's a-movin' and a-shakin' these days. And I saw him crawl for the first time. Not that one kind of forward propulsion should be held superior to another, because each baby has his or her own ingenuity, but this was textbook left-knee-right-hand, right-knee-left-hand crawling. Not for a great distance, mind you, because the object of his desire (the cat) was only three knees away. But my heart literally did a flip when I saw him do it. It was just so exciting. Because I'd been watching him figure it out for the past 15 minutes or so. He's also stood by himself without holding onto anything for very brief moments. Marilyn saw him do it earlier today, and then this evening after his bath, Stacy saw him do it. In the nude, no less. He pulled himself up on the outside of tub to a standing position and then Stacy put his hooded towel on his head and he reached up with both hands and touched it like, "What's this on my head?" and for that brief time he was a free standing naked Bear.
All of this moving comes with a price, however, and he's knocked his head a couple of times today. He's got a red line on his forehead from hitting his head on the book case and a little rug burn on his face from a bombs away while Marilyn was watching him. It's amazing watching him get more and more physical. He doesn't like to be stationary if he can help it. We are definitely not baby-proofing fast enough.
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