Bodily functions -- two firsts

1) Ever since we got back home, Isaac has been a pill. He's been whiny, clingy, and sleeping quite badly. He wants to be carried everywhere, all the time. He's eaten almost nothing. We figure several ominous fronts are converging on his poor system at once: i) exhaustion from traveling, ii) the arrival of some back molars, and iii) a stomach bug floating around Indianapolis most of the time we were home (he did have a one-day fever thing on New Year's Eve that made that holiday extremely lame for Dada and I). Saturday night was the most horrible of horribles. He woke up at 1 or 1:30 and didn't go back to sleep until almost 5:30. Lucky for me, Dada has decided to step up with the nocturnal Isaac duties due to the upcoming arrival who will clearly be requiring my attention at night, and so we switched off, each doing our best. At 3:30 I wondered if he might be hungry and offered him another sippy of milk, which he gratefully slurped down. 15 minutes later as I continued with my repertoire of sleep-coaxing tricks, he sat bolt upright in his bed and spewed a gigantic wall of milk from his mouth, all over his and my jammies and his bedspread. This was the first time he had ever thrown up, and he was momentarily stunned by the experience. He quickly recovered, and adopted an "I told you so" kind of look about him. Dada suggested I pull him into bed with me for a movie marathon until one of us passed out. Watching Thomas reruns eventually did the trick. And no more puking ever since.

2) I have been extremely hestitant to push the potty-training business on Isaac. My number one reason? Every time you ask him if he is pooping, as he is purple-faced and grunting in a corner, he will tell you most matter-of-factly "No." And then when he is done with this "non-pooping" business, he is just as happy to sit around in his mushy filth as not, playing as though nothing really did happen. Today I heard him grunting quite obviously in the other room, begging the question: "Isaac, are you going poop?" and, to my surprise, the answer was "Yeah." When he was done: "Can I change your diaper?" "[running full speed with a full dipe in the opposite direction]NO NO NO NO NO NO NO." One out of two is definitely a start.