Did Our Toddler Morph into a Newborn?

This is Ed this morning, playing in the kitchen.

The picture of Eddie in white with the green hat was taken the day we got home from the hospital. He's so adorable when he sleeps--too bad he doesn't do more of it.

We have had limited sucess with Eddie sleeping through the night. At least we can finally usually get until 4 and when we are lucky, til 5:30. Last night brought me back to the nights of no sleep. He woke at midnight, then at 3 and again from 3-8 several times. I tried to let him cry, but man, a couple times it sounded like he was is agony--but then at 3am, who is awake enought to discern? You could hear him throwing things out of the crib--his stuffed elephant, blanket and then finally I heard these loud crashes. Turns out they were plastic pieces we put on the side of the crib so he couldn't gnaw on the rail ofthe crib. He threw one that I still can't find.

All this when Den has to wake up at 4:30 for a 6am flight. Come to find out his plane has a mechanical issue and he's been put onto a completely different routing, not leaving until 8am! Ugh.

Eddie is really liking to empty the dishwasher (he will come running from another room of the house when he hears it open). This is a recent picture of him "helping". He does the silverware. Have to be quick when he grabs a knife or a fork :)

So we are going to buy a digital SLR. When g'pa Ohio got 6 shots of the 51 foot tower of blocks falling and I got a shot of the pile at the end, that sealed the deal for us. We just have to decide which camera to buy. I feel like a bit of a poser buying such a decked out camera, but I like to take photos and enjoyed my all manual camera back in high school--but by the time I get up to close of a shutter speed on the point and shoots, you can just about buy the SLR. Course this will also burn through memory much faster.