Beck and Call

It's been an eventful week and I've tried to make time for an entry, but that isn't the only thing that's gone by the wayside. Actually, my last post didn't make it up on the blogger site until Wednesday because I kept getting errors when I tried to post! I guess they figured it out eventually; darn technology!

About a week ago the boy was relegated to an army crawl for getting around, but since then he's perfected the "hands and knees" crawl technique and got up on his feet with support for the first time. Now he's on his feet all the time and is even trying some sideway steps. It's funny to watch since his feet slide apart slowly and he doesn't notice until he's almost done a split. A normal adult reaction would be to readjust one of your feet and I wondered to myself why he wasn't doing that, but then I remembered that he doesn't know how!

It goes without saying that the boy is into everything and those days of putting him on the floor and expecting him to be entertained are over! He still loves the simplest toys, but he goes from toy to toy with hardly any transition. That's been made even more demanding by the fact that my wife hurt her back on Friday which left me to do all of the boy lifting this weekend. I don't mind it though since I'm pretty used to it from weekdays and I've been loosing a bunch of weight over the last few months! I dropped about 10% of what I weighed last November, so it's nice to know all that running around provided some benefits!

The highlight of the week has to be the little man saying his first intelligible sounds. He says "da da da da da" quite a lot and even some "ma ma ma ma ma" which left my wife and I tearing up. You know objectively that he doesn't know what he's saying yet, but you can see that glint in his eye that he's beginning to associate certain sounds with different objects. I think it'll be pretty cool when I can have a conversation with him, which absolutely blows my mind. To think, 10 months ago he wasn't much more than the size of a football and now he's standing up!

Well, duty calls as it's time for his feeding since I'm still at his beck and call for the time being. It's tiring, but since I know I'll miss this stage when it's gone, I don't mind one bit and am enjoying every minute of it.