Two major events in the life of Sebastien:

1) Seb went on his first bus ride last weekend. He's a bit obsessed with buses at the moment. It started when he began sitting at the top of the "twisty slide" at the park for a minute or two before he slid down. He'd sit up there where he had a clear view of the street, and every time a city bus would pass, he'd yell "Bus! Bus!" Then he started looking for buses all over the place - from the car while we're driving, out on walks, at the grocery store - everywhere. He yells "Bus! Bus! Bus!" all the time, and then when he actually sees a bus, he'll crane his head as far as he can to watch until the bus is out of sight. And then he'll say "Bye Bye Bus." And it's cute because his "s" sounds like a Daffy Duck "s".

So we decided to take him on a bus ride for fun. It was like he was in a dream the whole time - wide-eyed and amused by everyone and everything on the bus. We rode it to the bookstore, bought him a book about buses, and then rode it back. It was wonderful, but it did seem to reinforce his bus obsession.


2) The second event was not so fun. Seb had a severe allergic reaction to something (we're not sure what, but think it was the antibiotics he had been on for an ear infection). He had horrible looking hives all over his little body. We took him to the doctor in the morning, and they told us just to give him Benadryl. The Benadryl didn't work, and by 1:00 am his feet started to swell and he had hives all over his body and face, some of them as big as the palm of my hand. So we went to the ER, where they gave him epi, steroids, and more Benadryl. It was scary, but by the next morning he was feeling great and back to his old self. Now he just has all these (still kind of horrible-looking) remnants of hives all over him. Poor little Seb. Now we just need to be on the lookout for reactions all the time since we really aren't sure what caused it.


As for other news, we're still working on getting him to sleep in his toddler bed. Some nights are great and he sleeps there all night. But many nights we find him out of his bed, curled up asleep on various part of his bedroom floor. And one night, we found him sound asleep with his torso on the bed, but his legs hanging down onto the floor. We can't quite figure out how he even slept like that, but it sure was cute. So now he mostly does half the night in the bed, then half in the crib. He's getting there, though.

And finally, we think he really does know he has a baby brother coming. If we ask him where his baby brother is, he'll pat my tummy. Or, if Baby the cat is around, he'll run over to that "Baby" instead.