Climbing, Standing, Crying, and Looking Cute

Kellan has been doing at least one of the four actions listed in the title of this post at any given time during the past couple of days.  While recovering from HFMD (see last post), he's filled most of his time with trying to pull himself up to a stand.  Two of the other actions (standing and crying) are the most common results of his efforts.  See below.

Kellan uses Mommy and Daddy as a pseudo jungle gym by climbing into their laps and trying to pull himself up to their shoulders (he's quite persistent)

Notice the crazed look in his eyes - he's always fired up about getting on his feet!

Once he gets to a standing position, it's all a matter of celebration... in this case, by hitting the top of the ottoman and sticking out his tongue.

Hit! 

Tongue!

Hit!

Tongue!

Occasionally, Kellan struggles to reach his goal of a stand, as shown in this pic:

And other times, he just plain fails.  It's very upsetting (as you can imagine)

 But as mentioned, he's also been looking cute (though that's really just been a daily ritual since birth)

Please notice the several different toys in the photo.  He gathered as many toys as he could into his lap, then couldn't decide what to play with first (he must get that from Mommy).

Also notice his hair flip on the right side, which is impenetrable to straightening or smoothing of any kind.

What's more fun that a ride on Daddy's shoulders?  Not much according to this smile!

Mommy loves this look of Kellan's - slightly mischievous, with a distinct twinkle in the eyes.  Like he's about to let out an Ernie laugh (from Bert & Ernie on Sesame Street).

He's always so innocent and peaceful in the morning... angelic as can be.

By the way, we're clear to take Kellan back to daycare tomorrow.  Yay!  He's doing much better and the rash is nearly gone.  Though he could still be contagious, the caregivers/teachers are going to work doubly hard to sanitize anything Kellan gets his mouth on before allowing another child to play with it.  Ha!  I wonder how many dishwasher loads they'll have each day? (my guess is at least 3)