Week 41: On the Move!

This has been a busy week which ended in a super busy weekend.  Erik & I spent Monday at Legoland with Tom & Lauron Henkel before I had to take them to the airport.  We were very sad to see them leave; we had had such a great time visiting with them.  We wish that they lived much closer!  I spent the rest of the week trying to catch up at work and Kent spent the rest of the week fixing up the two hallway half baths (new fixtures, new mirrors).  We are getting closer to checking off most of our major to-do items.  What a great feeling that is!

Kelli & Erik at Legoland

Cutest baby ever!

Erik riding a lego donkey

We ended the week with Erik having his first platform performance at church.  He did the offering call at all 3 services at Forest Lake Church.  He let Kent & I help him...but he definitely was the star of the show!  The offering call was for the building fund and so our family was asked to serve as interviewees to talk about how Erik’s Sabbath School class is crowded  and more space would be so nice for all the Sabbath School rooms.  There are about 120 names on the nametag board in Erik’s cradle roll class; there are 2 Sabbath School sessions each weekend, but the room’s capacity is 40 kids.  If there was a week when more than a third of the total possible kids showed up, families would have to be turned away from Sabbath School.  By the time that we were done with all 3 services, we were exhausted!  We were at church from 8:20AM until after 12 noon.  Erik was a super trooper and performed like a champ.  He was content and happy on stage; he tried to take the mike when he got close to him.  By 3rd service, he was reaching out to the pastor to get closer to the microphone and he made a few sounds.  You could hear the laughter in the audience.  We got lots of compliments on our little guy!

The big news of this week is that Erik is crawling - or kind of crawling!  He took his first few “steps” on Wednesday night.  The caregivers at daycare said that he had been crawling that day while with them, so we made double the effort to get him to crawl for us at home.  Kent said that he saw Erik move both his legs & his arms and officially called it crawling.  I didn’t really see any actual crawling movement until the weekend, when Erik terrorized his room and attacked every bit of furniture in there!  He pulled things off the bottom shelf of the bookcase, tried to pull himself up on the rocker’s ottoman, pulled open his dresser drawers, tried to pry the bars off his crib and toppled a little end table on top of himself - twice!  Our easy existence as parents of a non-mobile child is over.  We enjoyed it while we had it - and never really lamented the fact that several babies at daycare that are younger than Erik have been crawling & nearly walking for weeks now.

Let’s hope that Kent & I can keep up!