Father's Son

I knew there was really no hope of my child being normal. While Aaron and I do our best to appear as much, we're hopelessly odd when no one else is around (and sometimes when other people are around:). Anyhow, it's now been confirmed that Eli is doomed to be just as weird. Because over the weekend I found the one thing that calms him no matter how worked up he is. Anyone want to venture a guess??? Anyone? Well, let me tell you what my odd little duck likes. It's the vacuum. Yes, I said the vacuum cleaner.

I accidentally found this out when I put him in his swing on Saturday. He sort of needed a nap, but was being fussy. So I figured if he wasn't going to nap anyway, I'd just get my vacuuming done (thank you Zoe for all the hair on our floor). And once the vacuum was turned on, he IMMEDIATELY stopped fussing. I'm talking instantaneously calm. I finished vacuuming the living room and turned off the vacuum and the response? Whhhaaaaa! So I turned it back on and vacuumed the "dining room". Thankfully by the time I finished with that, he'd fallen asleep. But seriously, who likes the vacuum? It could only be the son of my OCD husband who vacuums constantly. I think it made Aaron love him even more, if that's possible. Bc it means Eli's just as quirky AND I now vacuum every day. *sigh* My husband and son are so strange.