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April 4 - We flew to the Bay Area for a visit today. Like the other times, he
was a very good baby on the plane. Jeff weaseled us all into first class for
the trip down, which was very nice, though a bit sneaky.
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April 5 - We visited the San Francisco zoo today.
It's changed a lot. Ethan liked it fine, but the truth is that at this point,
he's as fascinated by things like buttons as he is by things like elephants.
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Sunday we gardened at Mom's all day. Mom got Ethan a
"learning drum." And Tony got him this extremely adorable Winnie the
Pooh toy. Today I could have sworn he said, "I ate dirt." He also makes
motorboat sounds all the time.
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April 15 - Jeff's dad has arrived. It's pretty exciting that he'll be living
out here. And it's really working out surprisingly well so far having 4 extra
cats and a dog in the house. :)
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April 17 - Ethan fell off the bed today. Oops. He cried, but seems OK, though I
felt really bad. Jeff's out of town again, and Ann offered to come over during
my meeting, but then Dan got home in time, so he watched him. Ethan loves the
"Where's Ethan?" game. We cover his face with something and then look around
saying, "Where's Ethan?" "Where is he?" Then sometimes I take it off and say
"There he is! Let's tickle him!" and sometimes he takes it off himself. He
giggles the whole time.
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April 19 - Happy birthday, me. Jeff brought me coffee in bed and gave me a
gorgeous massage. We put Ethan in his crib in his own room tonight, for the
first time, because we'd folded up the co-sleeper and taken it to Dan's for the
day. Ethan didn't seem to have any trouble going to sleep by himself. When he
woke up we brought him into our bed for the rest of the night.
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Jeff played the "Where's Ethan?" game with him today, just looking around the
way we used to do it. Ethan laughed and laughed. There's nothing quite like
making a baby giggle uncontrollably.
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April 22 - He turned on the drum by himself today and started playing with it.
It's actually not clear whether he prefers to hit the drum, or just mess with
the buttons on the front.
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More laughs today, as Jeff adopted a funny old-lady Wallace-and-Gromit kind of
voice. Also, he went into the nursery and spoke to the baby monitor, leaving
Ethan in the living room holding the receiver. Ethan loved it, especially since
it was set on vibrate.
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At dinner I gave him a big piece of cantaloupe to suck on. It was quite funny
for a while, as he managed to bite it in half, and then he had a big piece in
his mouth that kept coming out and then disappearing again. Then he choked and
gagged quite dramatically, as he does with just about everything we give him to
eat that's not baby food. He recovered, as he always does.
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Ann and Zack got him a teething toy -- it's a duck with rubber feet that are
good for babies to chew on. Ethan offered the duck feet to me, and we traded
off chewing on them. He's really very generous.
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ethan
