Only one month left and we'll no longer have a baby in the house. Hopefully, we'll have some visit but we have no plans to have one live here again. Part of me gets melancholy when I think that this phase of life is over. Our baby chapters are written (with the exception of this last month). While it is sad to leave this stage behind, it is exciting to see what is on the horizon. I'm finally coming out of the 'baby psychosis stage' as I like to call it. M is sleeping better and so I am too and therefore able to get more things accomplished. I was exhausted with pregnancy when we moved into the house and then exhausted with a baby for the past year. I'm finally getting to some of those projects that have needed tackled for a year and a half.
M took his first unassisted steps this month! He's still very wobbly but he's walking a few feet at a time. He thinks he is big stuff. He's fun to watch.
He is getting into everything. He's learned to reach things on the edges of tables and desks. Little fingers are constantly stretching to see what objects are within his grasp. He also figured out how to open the cupboard doors and cooling racks are always laying about the kitchen floor.
Teeth #7 and 8 finally came through. The second one on the bottom left erupted on Tuesday, January 26th and #8 made his mouth symmetrical on Thursday, January 28th.
He is wringing his hands and sticking out his tongue to end January. He started shaking his head "no". I sing "Clap your hands all ye people..." to him and he grins and claps his hands.
M is so interactive and fun. It is amazing to watch his personality blossom more and more each month. He is constantly investigating things and 'tasting' everything. Figuring out the world is his objective.
He loves to get into the places that he knows that he usually is blocked. If the stairs are left open, he's headed that way. If the school room door is not blocked shut, he's in there. If the bathroom doors aren't closed, he's playing in the toilet. He has a great knack of finding the places that he is not suppose to be.
He was eating great for a bit this month but between his head cold and back molars causing trouble, he went back to baby food. He even gave up puffs for a week or so. But, slowly he's coming back to regular food. He ate more than a half cup of blueberries for dinner tonight, which is a great sign that he's feeling better.
We went to the cardiologist last week. M's heart is doing well and we don't have to return for 2 years until his next heart echo. We were so thankful for that news.
We finally got a big snowstorm yesterday. It came with loud winds that knocked out our power for a couple of hours and lots of snow.
This afternoon, M was trying to eat some snow that fell of one of the kid's boots and so I decided to let him take a closer look at all the white stuff. It was okay at first to be strapped in the sled and toted around but the wind was fierce and it is more fun to move under your own power.
