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Sorry for the long time since my last update.
Ari was with Sara Thanksgiving weekend in Findley with some friends of hers. Their boy, about a year old now, was sick, and it was with him that Ari spent one of the nights with and played with (a story in of itself). Ari came home and seemed fine. However a while later he started having a runny nose, and still had it as of the 4th when I had him. I was going to run camera that night, but since he was sick, I couldn’t check him into the nursery, so I had to keep him with me. So he had fun in the Parents’ Room with me since I would have been third camera and they could work with just two.
He is a bit fussy at times when his teeth seem to hurt as more teeth are coming in, otherwise he is his usual self.
He’s crawling full speed and took a small tumble the other day, but nothing major yet. He is cruising a little, and occasionally that results in him tripping, but after a small bit of crying, he gets back up and goes at it again.
He’s doing more and more solid foods. He doesn’t seem to like sweets much, which I guess is a good thing. At the moment, we still have him on level 2 foods, but we’ll probably push that up soon.
The only bad thing is that he tends to stay up until 1 in the morning, and as he’s in the room with Sara, she doesn’t get much sleep. Thankfully he sleeps until nearly 11 in the afternoon, though sometimes he gets up a bit earlier.

Ari spent Tuesday and Wednesday here. Not as much of Tuesday as would be normal since I worked Monday night, Tuesday morning until 5 a.m. However, I picked him up then and then we came home and went to sleep, and played when we got up.
I got him that Superyard XT that I talked about before. He isn’t super happy with it, but I can’t let him just crawl all over all the time. I think he likes it better then a playpen (or play yard as they call them now for whatever reason).

I dropped the height on Ari’s crib the other day just in time, as that morning I woke to find him standing in it. Had we not dropped it down, he would surly have tumbled right out.
I tried to get a Superyard XT the other day while at the store, but didn’t have room to make it fit in my car… I’ll need to borrow either Sara’s parents truck, my parent’s truck, or one of the church’s trucks to get it home. The really nice thing about it is that it encloses a large amount of space that he can crawl in without having to worry too much about him. I still need a couple of gates, I was thinking of the All Clear Swing Gate as it can be pressure mounted or hardware mounted and has good ratings. One would go on his room, the other at the bottom of the stairs. I debate if I need one at the top of the stairs if I have one on the door to his room or not… I probably should actually get one more to stop him from getting into the kitchen and then some kind of similar gate to cover the dinning room entrance from the living room, but that is five feet or so, making the gates that can do it a bit harder to compare… though if I get that Superyard XT I probably don’t need to worry so much about the kitchen and dinning room. I worry about the dinning room as the computer and all it’s wires are there.
Saturday Ari went to the church nursery and was good and happy the whole time. It was the first time he really has been exposed to other kids, and perhaps a bit overdue. While we of course don’t want him to get sick, he needs exposure to the germs to build his immune system up.
Tomorrow is Ari and dad’s day out together. I am not sure yet exactly what we’ll do.

We would nearly need to update every day to keep up with the changes.
Yesterday, Ari pulled himself up to his feet, and managed to cruise some. Lucky for him, I was right there when he ran out of cruising space and caught him before he hit the ground. He started to cry, but decided that it was okay.
Just a couple days before that he learned to pull himself up to his knees.
He still has his front four teeth, but is cutting in two more top teeth, making him more irritable… which probably makes him nearly a regular baby with how calm he is normally.
I’ll try and get more pictures posted soon. We have some of him in his giraffe costume, some of him on his knees, and some of him standing.