You may think I'm exaggerating since it's Seattle in November so how could it be sunny, but it has been the last couple days. The baby has also been feeling sunny. He's mostly healed from the terrible skin infection. The culture came back stating the bacteria was "not resistant" though it didn't specify if it was staph or strep. I guess it doesn't matter as long as he's healing. We have a couple more days of antibiotics and his skin is still healing, but there are no open wounds or crusty skin left.

His mood is also back to its cheerful self, overall. He's started doing these mini-melt downs and cries when he doesn't get his way but we mostly just patiently soothe him without giving in and he's over it in 10 seconds. Sometimes it's a sign that he's tired. Other times we just have to be the parents and make sure the GIANT chunk of food he wants to leave in his mouth when he gets down from his high chair, does in fact come out before he goes off to choke somewhere.

One cool thing he did this week was climb off the couch, by way of a foot stool. He backed from one to the other and got on the floor in a pretty coordinated fashion. He's still not pulling up but he's growing and exploring at his pace and when he figures it out he'll just add cruising to the repertoire.

I'm excited for the Thanksgiving 4-day holiday. It'll be tons of time with the family and lots of exciting new foods for Moriarty to try. If people are curious about Christmas, we do have an Amazon wish list set up for him for ideas (connected to Pip Lafleur's account). Non-physical gifts are always awesome too.