The adventure is well under way!

So I had all these great intentions of blogging about being a mom. I planned to record cute little things he did, milestones, things I find useful, things I find annoying, things I wish I would have known to steer clear of..... I guess this will be the start finally. Val's slowly getting onto a sleep schedule. I can pretty much set my sleep schedule to his feeding times. No, he's not sleeping through the night just yet. That's the first question I get from anyone these days.

We're now in the hunt for a walker to keep him busy. From about the second month, he's wanted to stand. He wanted to pull himself up, and would be curled into a ball trying to stand up on his own. He's been really sturdy, holding his head really steady since about two months, maybe even younger. That made Patrick very happy. Patrick had never held a baby before. He avoided holding all our nephews and nieces until they were around three years of age. He was just afraid of breaking them. When we found out we were expecting, I told him he had no choice but to hold a newborn now. He wasn't going to get away with not holding Val no matter how small he was in the beginning. Not that he would have wanted to avoid holding him. I think this picture says it all: