Trial and Error

Today was all about trial and error.  It was not a bad day; it was just a trying day and pretty entertaining too.  The morning was uneventful.  Other than, of course, for the early 430 am wake up for breakfast.  It is trying.  Ever since the sun started setting earlier, Bubeaner has been going to bed earlier.  Great!  But because of it, he is also waking up earlier.  Not so great!  Today we kept him up later until 830p so hopefully this will make for a more decent start tomorrow morning. 

Bubeaner stuck under his burnt orange chair.

He keeps crawling backwards.

Bubeaner spent the morning practicing his crawling while Momma cleaned and put his clothes away.  For some reason, he started crawling backwards again.  At one point he got stuck under the chair in the nursery.  Bubeaner's way of dealing with it was by crying.  The dogs, in turn, tried to get him out by pushing and moving the chair.  They helped their baby!  

Bubeaner on his new foam play mat.

Sadly that was not the last time Bubeaner cried today.  We bought him a foam play mat to save his little (ha!) head from the wood floor when crawling.  We thought it was the perfect solution.  Bubeaner did not.  He cried every single time he was placed on it.  Every single time.  Eventually, he agreed to play on the mat for a few minutes, but he was not happy.

He was also not happy at being denied access to the kitchen.  He serenaded Momma with a whining "aboooh, aboooh, aboooh" during dinner preparations.  Thinking about it, Bubeaner was pretty grumpy today.  But it did not feel like it because in between he was all smiles and giggles.  We did a lot of playing and tickling.  Some days you gotta take the bad with the good.

Unfortunately, Bubeaner did not react as we expected.

Momma spent the entire afternoon (3+ hour) unsuccessfully putting up curtains/curtain rod in the dining room.  The result was multiple holes on the wall, the sheer panel up and only one panel of the darker curtains up since Momma picked up the wrong length of curtain rod.  Ha!Ha!Ha!  At least there were no tears this time.  Instead Bubeaner kept hugging the sheer panels and talking to them just like he does to his blankets.  This may prove a problem in the future.