One Step forward!

Today my little guy managed to take his first wobbly step on his own. I am not completely sure he knew what he had done as I picked him up and cheered. But it means that my little baby is soon to be a toddler. I truly find it amazing that although he has never bothered to crawl we are on the verge of walking. We have now developed a bum shuffle to get from floor to near chair so that we can walk around. He amazes me, who knows what he will be doing next week.

It is coming.........

I can hardly believe it that is a months time till my little guy turns ONE!! I am not sure I am ready to have a one year old. As I start looking back over the last year I can hardly believe how much has happened. My little one in some ways feels like he has been here forever. I am overwhelmed with love for him more each day. I truly cannot cuddle him enough. I watch him as he changes and his personality comes out more and more and wonder what life has in store for him. But all I know for the moment is I am going to enjoy just that the moment.

Dangerous Sports!

Having had my best friend come and visit which was great. My little guy decided to reward this joy with his forth tooth arriving whilst she was baby sitting and I was at the dentist of all places. I returned home to a grumpy baby but I was glad that it had arrived as it had been threatening to for sometime. My little one has been spoiled rotten whilst my friend was here and so I am now left with a baby that wants my undivided attention. It scares me silly that he has now turn 10 months old and with that has decided to take on new dangerous sports. Not just one but two. My nerves truly cannot take it.

The first dangerous sport is standing. He loves for you to stand him up and then he hold on to things and generally feels very proud of himself and occasionally he will wobble without holding onto anything. The dangerous part is: he falls down. Either because he fails to manage to grab hold on something or because the something he grabs onto fails to hold him. He wibbles and he wobbles and he falls down with a huge crash and screams and tears.

The second dangerous sport is that with the standing has come the huge need to walk everywhere!! This also causes a lack of balance as we edge around the activity table. Or the best is pushing the walking toy and forgetting to move our legs and so causing our face to eat some carpet. I know that in time these sports will not remain dangerous but my question is will he have any brain left over or will he have simply knocked it all out by the time he can walk!

One, Two Three ........

My little guy the other day was totally grumpy, we had had a bad night so I wasn't really thinking much about it until he opened his little mouth and there it was number three. That is the third tooth was just beginning to poke through. All of a sudden a light dawned on my as I realised why the night had been so bad and the morning to for that matter. We should soon be counting to four and the grumpy baby continues and a forth budge is there showing another little white spot of the tooth ready to burst through.

I Finally Get It!!

As I watch my little guy flap his arms in excitement at the world around him or a funny face from Daddy, as I watch him wobble on his legs as he stands holding on to my hands, I finally get it! I finally understand that when my mummy talks to me she doesn't always see the 20 something women but that little girl that lay in her arms, that gave her a first smile all those years ago. Just like in 20 years time when my son walks through the door with a tattoo or something which makes me want to scream, or a girlfriend that is soon to be a part of the family, I won't see the young man I will see the little boy I held in my arms, got up with a nursed two - three times a night, a boy that flapped his arms when you smiled and bounced on my knee. As we all know that from now on until the end of time he will always be my little boy!

How did we do it???

As I watch my little guy cling for dear life on my hands as he wobbles about on his very unstable legs it makes me wonder how we ever manage to walk. When you start to think about the logistics of standing never mind walking I am amazed. Carrying all that weight on those two tiny things called feet and then on top of that you need to move without falling flat on your face. I find how all those muscles work and your brain sending all those signals to them as they quickly adjust amazing. God really did have to know what he was doing when he created man, or any other animal in fact. My little guy can now do a wobbly walk as you stand in front and hold his hands but anything else comes to a crashing end. We really do taking walking for granted forgetting how amazing it really is!!

Happy New Year!

The holidays are coming to an end and a new year has begun. My little guy has celebrated Christmas with his second tooth. So at the beginning of 2009 we have our two front teeth. OK not quite for Christmas but New Year at least. We also celebrated the holidays with a trip to the doctors for that wonder of wonders the NINE month appointment, I truly cannot believe my little boy is that old. We are pleased to say that he is still growing and has gained weight and also to keep in the family tradition has an extra large head.

All in all it has been a great Christmas and I cannot wait to see what 2009 has in store for the three of us!!