John Playing His Song

John is on the mend, still sick and grumpy but improving. He hasn't had a fever in more than 24 hours, so I figure that now he has to get through the probably lengthy period of time of having a wet cough and running nose hanging on.

In the meanwhile, Mama is now sick, which is no fun.

This morning I let John try using a sippy cup again, having not offered him one since he was six or seven months old. He drinks out of a little juice cup with my assistance. Maybe it's better to stick with that process and skip the sippy cup altogether so it's not one more baby thing from which he has to graduate. I don't know. Anyway, this morning I offered him the sippy cup. He enjoyed the novelty, did not easily get the concept of tipping the cup to get the water into his mouth (I had removed the slowing valve), but did quickly realize that he could pour the water onto his tray and kitchen floor in order to have grand fun.

For Christmas, John received a Little People airplane (thanks Uncle Dan and Aunt Courtney!), which has proven to be one of his favorite toys. When one pushes the captain's seat, one of four sounds is played: one of those sounds is a song, "High and Low," which always gets John "dancing" (shaking his pointy fingers around with his mouth hanging open). It took John three weeks, but in the last few days, he has finally learned to push the button hard enough and to push it quickly three times so he can get to his song without listening to the other sounds. Now we hear "High and Low" all day long--which is pretty innocuous, but is also exactly why we don't buy him electronic toys and the batteries are removed from all his other electronic toy hand-me-downs!

Here John spied the not-so-hidden camera:

Chris filmed this one and broke our cardinal marital rule that we don't film each other looking silly when we're filming the baby. First of all, you can see my knees and fingers bobbing off to the side as I was joining John in his "dancing." Then Chris turned the camera on me and caught me in my junky sick clothing, not wearing makeup, and looking like a dork! Well, it was a cute enough video of John that I decided not to let pride get the best of me and upload it to the blog anyway.