Bowls of all sorts (Super-, snack, and toilet to be more precise)

The past week has been a pretty good one in the Milner household.
Last weekend North spent Friday night with Grandma and Grandpa, and Alan and I got to have a date night--which ended up getting a bit snowed out but, that was fine. We had a chance to eat at one of our favorite, not super baby-friendly restaurants before the storm hit, Farm, so that was great. Alan got his favorite, The Lugar Burger (voted the best burger in Indiana by Food Network), I got an amazing Mack & Cheese dish, and we both split our favorite hummus in the world--Farm's White Bean Hummus. The chef also sent us out each an appetizer of a salmon belly sushi dish which was amazing.
Grandma, Grandpa, & North seemed to have a pretty great time together as well and beat the snowstorm in their trip up to Indianapolis.
Sunday, North, Alan, and I headed to our friend James's place to watch the super bowl and eat an obscene amount of football game snack foods. The football game was pretty disappointing with the Colt's loss but North was pretty into being around a large number of people all yelling at the tv screen and wearing the same outfit as him (which involved a colt's jersey and jeans). At several points he yelled "go go go" although he tended to be late in his declarations and was typically doing this during instant replays. Still, he's catching on and his excitement level would have made his grandma proud.
The snacks were not a bit disappointing. Our friends it would seem are snack food connoisseurs. Let me give you a run-down of the snacks because really, it was a bit awe inducing.
Carrie brought pretzels with white chocolate and blue M&Ms melted on top (both delicious & festive)
Tim brought little smokies
Josh brought bacotots--which I'm pretty sure he made up but, were quite yummy, bacon wrapped tater tots
Alan, North, and I brought chocolate chip and peanut butter cookies
Mike & Jessica brought a giant Mad Mushroom order of cheese sticks
Jimmy supplied chips, veggies, and dip
Louis and Leah brought blue rice crispy treats and the ingredients to make blue Tom Collins
Colleen brought bbq wings and drumsticks
Kevin brought chili-cheese dip and nachos
And Will outdid everyone by bringing a bacon explosion.

The Bacon Explosion

Lots of people dressed very similar to one another (including N)

Note the belly -- he likes to snack

and be tickled

Lots of sweets

On Tuesday North and I were snowed in and skipped out on driving to work and daycare. We had a great day snuggling up and staying warm. During the day, North practiced his skills of climbing into his own crib and turning on then off then on then off then on...every light-switch he could lay his little fingers on.

This is him proud of himself for having gotten into his crib and turned the light on. He remembered this light-switch throughout the night last night each time he woke up. I found him at 1 AM this morning hanging out very much like in the photo above (except in his PJs and screaming for me to come get him).

He also decided for the first time yesterday that he would give his baby toilet a real serious effort. He wanted to take off his shirt too (rather than just his pants) but kept his socks and sunglasses on (he's very fashion conscious). He sat there for like 30 minutes and said "poop!" about every 5 seconds. He never pooped though. Or peed. Just hung out being a ham. Maybe tomorrow...