The good and the bad ...

The good:
I was loving early last week when Nathaniel was doing a trick worthy of I found hilarious. He would be crawling along happily with me watching over him ... when I'd make some surprising noise and he would, in my mind, play possum. For several days, he'd just roll over onto his back and make some kind of screech. I found this to be amazing fun. I bragged about it at work and showed him doing it to my wife. Then he stopped after only a couple of days. Very disappointing.

I planned on blogging about it when it was happening, but he stopped to fast (and the election was going on around then, so I was busier than usual with work stuff).

Then, while I was waiting for his new possum talent to return ...

The bad:
Nathaniel apparently had a minor ear drum rupture. His ongoing ear infections seem to have gotten worse. This time, he surprised us by not having a fever. Then on Thursday morning, he had a bunch of crust all around his ear. Amanda took him to the doctor and the doc said he had a little pin prick in his eardrum and the effect was kind of like a zit popping (small hole, bunch of gunk comes out).
Apparently it's not a real danger to his hearing or health in the long term, but it still makes us nervous. We have an appointment with an Ear Nose Throat specialist, but it's still a little ways off (it takes so long to meet with doctors around here sometimes).

So Nathaniel seems fine (again). He's back on antibiotics (again). Poor little guy.