Touching ground

It's been a long week here. Evan has been sick--nothing too serious, but he's coughing a lot and it keeps him from sleeping. I kept him home from school on Tuesday, and then he threw up on the van on Wednesday (he really doesn't like his cough medicine) so I picked him up at school and he spent yesterday at home too. The kicker is he doesn't feel sick. I mean, he sounds like hell, but other than that he's perfectly normal. So it was great having him run around the house like a wild boy all day yesterday.

Grady is doing well. He's talking a lot more now--he seems to add a new word almost every day. Sometimes I have to push him a little though. He'd much rather go over to the fridge to point and grunt than say "more milk". But that will come along I think, and it's a relief not to be so concerned about his development. Grady does things almost effortlessly. I remember these long development checklists I used to get for Evan, and we'd work and work trying to get him to do things on them, like stacking blocks. G just does them--I don't think I realized before just how tough it was for Ev to learn.

Other than that, things are pretty quiet. We've been starting our bathroom remodel, and I can tell you that it's going to suck. As with most things we've done, it's going to be a lot more work than we first thought. But better to get going on that while we're stuck inside. Did I mention I'm ready for spring?