Michael Phelps

AJ, the little guy who detests hats and anything on, near or around his head randomly picked up a pair of swimming goggles the other day and voluntarily put them on his own head while he wandered around the house. This is the same guy who hates hats so much that he even takes hats off his friends' heads. At one point he also located Joe's earphones and experimented with sticking them in his ears like he has seen daddy do, which made for two things on, near or around his head at the same time. It felt like a breakthrough of some kind.

Since the Summer Olympics and the well-publicized shock-and-awe inducing diet of the swimmer, Michael Phelps, we have often joked that AJ is a mini-Michael in training. AJ is definitely on a growth spurt of some kind, because he is eating massive quantities of food for the size of his body. On Sunday night AJ and I went to his friend, J's, house for dinner. J's mom made meatloaf, mashed potatoes, squash and green beans, and AJ ate an entire adult-sized plateful of dinner. This probably explains why he also produces the staggering number of dirty diapers that he generates each day. He is in a phase where he hates to have his diaper changed, and let me tell you that a 3 foot, 30+ pound little wriggler is quite a match for a mom who is 7 months pregnant and doesn't move as fast as she used to. I have taken to changing him in the tile-floored bathroom in case he manages to break away from me.