Busy Boy

Quick run-down of Ezra's new discoveries/adventures:

• Eating a big handful of mud.  (I was weeding a flower bed and turned my back for two seconds!)
• Climbing the staircase solo.  (I was talking to husband in the kitchen, Ezra was playing on the floor.  While we continued to talk, for another minute or two, he took off.  We found him upstairs playing with books on the bookcase.)  I was proud and freaked out at the same time.
• Cruising on all fours over all manner of surfaces.  (The texture of grass used to make him cringe, and extinguish all mobility efforts.  No more!  If he wants to get somewhere, grass or no grass, he is going.)
• Airplanes.  (We have been outside a fair bit lately and he perks up at the sound of an airplane and will point up to the sky.)
• Pointing, in general.  (Neurons are flying in his little developing brain, and in the absence of words to vocalize his observations, he points at anything and everything that catches his attention.)
• Verbalizing 101.  (Ezra can say "uh-oh", and uses the word often.  He loves to go and understands that anytime we go, we must wear a hat, so his latest word development is "ha", meaning hat, and the exciting prospect of getting to go somewhere.  He can also say "hi" and "bye-bye", but this is rare.)