Not doing ALL the things, but MOST of the things anyway.

Well, today is productive. Much credit to Scott, who came up with the idea of the zoo run, and thus created an afternoon in which productivity was possible (WOW did Drew need to run off energy!). Today we have:

1. Gone to the zoo for three hours. Including watching the wild birds show. Which only briefly held Drew's attention but *I* enjoyed it. They now have to tell people, not only to sit down, but to put away all food. Apparently the turkey vulture has realized that humans have food and it's yummy (but bad for the bird). :P

On the ride home, both kids fell asleep. Getting out of the car, both woke up. Alas.

2. Gotten me new pants. I wanted one more pair in rotation, plus another to replace the lovely but easily-snagged mid-tan pair I had. Alas. It's a gorgeous fabric, but it snags on EVERYTHING. Including my wedding ring. No, thanks. Anyway, I got lucky as one of the two pairs I got was on clearance for 1/4 the normal price (and a color and style I like and can wear; there were rather a lot of OTHERS on clearance that I didn't get, including another pair of the snag-fabric, heh).

3. Washed three loads of laundry (well, okay, #2 is in the dryer and #3 is in the washer, but...).

4. Washed a load of dishes (still running, but hey, running is running!).

5. Lowered Ian's crib mattress to the bottom position - okay, Scott did that, I held the baby, and Drew wandered about "helping" with his "tool box" (a game box of Uno Moos, which he fortunately did not roll under Scott's feet, so that WAS helpful!). Ian is officially pushing to sit at every opportunity, having started during our Wisconsin trip, and has started trying to pull to stand. Day care is predicting he'll walk early. I refuse to guess; I fell into predicting an early crawl along with them, when in reality, he *wanted* to for a long time but hit the milestone at a normal time, he was just intensely frustrated in between. :P

[EDITED TO ADD: I posted this, and then Scott walked in to show me a picture of Ian, standing. He'd pulled himself to standing successfully. And held it long enough for three pictures before he fell over as the fourth one was being taken. I still refuse to predict walking, tho.]

6. Put holds on a couple videos at the library. Also, managed to be the second hold on Libriomancer! YES! :)

Now taking a break to write things up here, but then I need to go juggle more laundry and write some letters. And sort some pictures that were printed earlier this week so they might, you know, actually get mailed.

Things Ian is eating.

This is mostly for myself, but I do find the list (and, more to the point, people's reactions to the list) amusing. Ian is 7 months (and a bit), and is eating or has eaten:

1. Baby Mum Mum rice crackers (original and banana)
2. Garlic hummus on said rice crackers (not the banana ones, ew) - and yes, he only gets small amounts, as this does have more salt than I want him to have much of. It's 104 mg of salt a serving, and I'd guess he's getting about 1/10-1/5 of a serving per day when he has it, so. Spread thinly, it still is a very intense taste.
3. Banana - divide in thirds along the length so it's spears, and of course not a whole banana at a time
4. Applesauce (no sugar added; also not my first choice but it was the best of a baby-unfriendly list at the zoo today, along with shreds of my grilled chicken, which brings us to...)
5. Grilled or rotisserie chicken, the interior portions, shredded
6. cooked blueberries, minus skins
7. raw grapes, slivered and minus skins, but he didn't care for them much
8. shredded bits of white bread, bagel, homemade pancake interior, etc.
9. homemade barbecue beef
10. homemade baked beans
11. avocado
12. sweet corn
13. peas
14. baked sweet potato
15. watermelon
16. strawberries
17. homemade spaghetti sauce
18. swiss cheese (but didn't care for it much)
19. egg

...I swear I'm forgetting one or two, but maybe not. That's all I can pull to mind at the moment. Maybe we should take him out for Moroccan and see what he thinks of the lentil curry. Of course, Drew is at the picky stage and might not do so well going out for Moroccan. Hm.

I'm planning to try Ian on zucchini and summer squash next, largely because I *have* some. Cooked with garlic, since we know from the hummus he can handle garlic and likes it. (Ian and hummus: om nom nom nom nom grin nom.)