I've been so lacking in time to upload this blog. It's kind of sad in a way. I was hoping to have this little reference for Val when he was older. A place where he and I could check in and see where he was at progression wise, and what milestones we had hit on which days. Unfortunately, that has not come to pass. I barely have time to do anything that absolutely NEEDS done, let alone pop onto the pc to do a little blurb about what happened "today". I really want to start fitting it in however. He's going to be one in under two months and it's breaking my heart a little that the infant stage is almost over.
This week he started walking! He's been crawling for about three or four months now. He's been standing up and lifting things from the floor for about three. He's been cruising along the furniture for only a small amount of time. That started about two weeks ago. He has been standing up and holding onto things for so long, that it was kind of shocking when he didn't go straight to walking right after getting upwardly mobile. So Tuesday May 24 2011 he decided was going to be the day. There was not much thinking. He was on the floor with Patrick and was leaning over him as Patrick was flat on his back. Val just pushed up from his chest and stated walking across the kitchen into the livingroom as if he had been doing it for weeks. A bit unsteady, sure, but he knew where he was going and he was GOING to get there. So once he figured out that he COULD do it, he spent all day Wednesday motoring around the house. It had so completely engulfed his activity for the day, that even the open dishwasher, which is always a draw, wasn't even noticed. Back and forth across the kitchen, from the kitchen to the living room, from the living room back to the kitchen end to end.
So we've now got a walker on our hands. I'm thrilled. He's been hitting so many milestones so early. I signed up for a bunch of the little baby newsletter type things. I get monthly updates on "what your baby can do" this month sort of thing. He always seems to be about two months ahead. I got one at 8 months that said " you should start thinking about baby proofing, in just a short month your baby will start to crawl. WHAT?!? We had to baby proof for a crawling baby at 5 and a half almost 6. Needless to say, I only briefly glance at most of them now. They're so far behind where we're at that I'm really only looking at the articles to see if there is something I've missed, or something important.
I've been burning the candle at both ends however, and it's starting to bite me in the butt! I was really good up until this past week. I had a bunch of deadlines at work and we'd been really busy , so I was up until 3 or so most of the week. I've been a ZOMBIE for the last three days. Yet, here I sit, rather than going to bed and catching some shut eye, I'm here on the pc updating things. Well I think it's best that I head to bed. Tomorrow's going to be a long day, and I'm tired already just thinking about it!
