There is no joy in Mudville. Moriarty now officially has a weakness, well, 2 weaknesses. While feeding him solids and exploring more foods I noticed facial redness, swelling, and itchiness (he scratched) after eating eggs and peanuts. We went to the allergist today and did the scratch test. He is indeed allergic to both, as well as starting to show some reaction to cats. Some kids outgrow these allergies, but we have to be very vigilant going forward. We got 4 epi pens so he'll have them at home and school and wherever he goes. We already expected to be making most of his food, but as he gets older we'll have to forego the classroom sweets. In some ways that'll be kinda nice (less sugar) but it could also make him the weird, pain-in-the-ass, kid.
In happier news, I went on a business trip to DC and left the boys alone for 4 days - everyone survived. The less happy part was that Moriarty picked up ANOTHER virus from school and left him and Pip vomitous masses for the whole 4 days I was gone. I'm told there was some bed pooping (by Moriarty) which led to an exciting bathtub-in-the-sink bath.
For actual milestones, he's taken quite a liking to eating the foam floor tiles we put down in his play area. He loves them. And now he can crawl over to them and eat them. He's mostly doing an army crawl still, but he's covering distance, and when I leave the room inevitably the floor tiles are his first target. We even pulled out an extra for him to chew on since I wasn't having any luck distracting him from the ones functioning as his floor (mostly minimizing bonk pain when he falls).
Much more adorably, he's learned to clap. He likes to clap with us, and by himself. He has started waving but that's more inconsistent. He's also started trying to pull up, mostly on the wooden bar we built him. The first time it happened I had gone in the kitchen and came back to him half pulled up, looking up at me stuck and confused. He's fallen a few times as he practices, but we're getting better at staying close. Things are changing fast. I have to baby-proof the living room soon but it's a daunting task.