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The brown bear hoodie – Cute, cute, cute. Whoever thought up the toddler hoodie is a kid-fashion genius.

Cell phones – Poppa keeps his phone in his shirt pocket. Murrow knows this. Murrow digs it out, plays with it, and replaces it in the pocket.

Saying “uh-oh” – usually as or before something gets thrown to the floor.

Goodnight Moon - Murrow likes to point at the red balloon and the doggie/kitties.

Sometimes I Like To Curl Up in a Ball - Probably Murrow’s favorite book. He hauls it around the house and curls up in his chair with it, flipping through the pages.

Pulling things out of the pantry - Well, pulling things out of anything, really. He’s really not selective about what he pulls out, but when he comes across something he really likes, like his Tings, or rice cakes, he’ll hand it over to me or Gary so that we can feed it to him.

Raisins - Murrow goes through his phases with raisins. At times he likes them. Other times they’re only good for throwing on the ground. Right now, they’re gold.

Grapes - Murrow was REALLY into his cherries. Alas, the season for those is over. So we’ve switched over to grapes, or, as we call them, winter cherries. I think he likes them even more than cherries. And they don’t stain nearly as much.

Feeding himself - Instead of feeding Murrow on the tray that came with his highchair, we put his food on a mat and he eats directly off of that. Lately he’s been grabbing for the bowls and cups that we dispense the food from. He’s actually gotten quite good at eating directly from the cups without spilling the food all over the place. He’s also enjoying waving his fork around and occasionally eating from it.

Garbage - What is the fascination? Well, he does enjoy the whole things-in-other-things thing. He loves to push the trash can in his room around the house . And pull things out of it. And put non-trash items in it. He also likes playing with the broom, so maybe this is all a very good development. Or maybe just a yucky one.

Panky – This is the light purple afghan that Oma made him, that Kim and I are still impressed with the skill level for. It freaks us out, because this is the blanket he likes to carry around with him and we’re deathly afraid of losing it.

Hanky – Kim is making a miniature version of Blanky for Murrow to take out of the house.

Well, Murrow is sick again. I’m guessing he caught it from the ultra-friendly kid at the playground, who asked if Murrow would like to play, then made Murrow giggle when he kept on lunging at our baby boy going “Boo!”.

Poor guy has a fever and isn’t in the mood to do much of anything, so we spent the evening just curling up with Panky (Oma’s too precious purple blanket) and looking as pathetic as possible. Not pictured is when Murrow just decided to curl up with his purple block under his head, as if it was a pillow.

Everyone cross your fingers that he doesn’t get another ear infection.

What's silly is that Murrow's nose bubbles (cute & gross) have reminded both of us that we used to call him Bubble Mouth … but neither of us can remember the exact context for that name?  Did he make one big bubble with his mouth, or lots of tiny ones?

As you can see in the photo, Uncle Two Belts and Murrow got along great while he was in town.  UTB was in town working on his reflexes and parenting skills.  He still has a bit of work to do on his snap-second baby catching skills.