I can't believe it, my boy is crawling. I waited and waited for the day when he would achieve this monumental developmental stage. But now that it's here, I want everything to slow down...maybe even stop, at least for awhile. He's growing up too fast! But then again, I'm secretly so proud.
The dogs have another opinion about this milestone. I'm pretty sure this is the moment they hoped would never come. On his first day of successful crawling, Grady managed to crawl back and forth across the room between the two dogs and try to take their bones away. At one point, I watched Cooper and Grady duke it out over a Nylabone. Grady took it, Cooper took it back, Grady took it again, Cooper took it back. Luckily that dog loves that little boy so I was never worried things would turn ugly. Cooper looked more annoyed than anything, as if to say...'Quit it!' Laramie put up with less before just getting up and completely walking away. She must realize Grady is not that quick at the crawling thing.
I have a feeling they are going to wish they could open and close baby gates soon to be able to completely get away from G.
Speaking of baby gates, I realized I am completely unprepared for 'Mobile Grady'. Yes, we have latches on our bottom kitchen cabinets. But we don't have gates, nor do I have any idea where we plan to put them. Think quickly, right?
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Who looks at this??
I've decided that all of my friends seem to keep up with my facebook page much more than my blog. Apparently Facebook is the new fad--or probably has been but I'm always behind the times it seems.
April was insanely busy for us. First it was Mark's big fishing expo--quite successful...again. Then we took a trip to Pittsburgh to visit my family. Grady's first plane ride. It wasn't too bad actually. The flight back was worse because he was REALLY awake. Which these days translates to jumping up and down and reaching and grabbing everything he can and putting it in his mouth. At one point he tried to grab the hair on the guy sitting in front of us. It felt like a VERY long three hours. But of course Grady got loved on nearly continuously by his Grandma and Pappy and Aunt Beth and Aunt Amy and Aunt Stephanie and Uncle Greg. I think I barely held him for 4 days. Which is sort of good now that he's nearly 17 lbs!
He's doing great now though--eating all kinds of real food. His favorites so far appear to be my birthday cake and blueberries. And he's working on crawling. All the motions are there but he can't quite figure out how to coordinate them all together at the right times. He's really a crack-up! I'm pretty sure my life was awfully dull before he came along.
We also finally celebrated his baptism in April. We all breathed a sign of relief on that one. He will go to heaven--well, at least so far. My best friend who is Grady's Godmother and her daughter came out for a visit and for the baptism. It was SO wonderful to have her here. We discussed this and came up with the fact that this was the first time she came to visit me in a place I lived in about 10 years. I wish we did not live so far away.
And so now it's May which means Mark starts working Saturdays again. :( Guess it's just me and G hanging out for half the weekend. We will miss Daddy a lot!
April was insanely busy for us. First it was Mark's big fishing expo--quite successful...again. Then we took a trip to Pittsburgh to visit my family. Grady's first plane ride. It wasn't too bad actually. The flight back was worse because he was REALLY awake. Which these days translates to jumping up and down and reaching and grabbing everything he can and putting it in his mouth. At one point he tried to grab the hair on the guy sitting in front of us. It felt like a VERY long three hours. But of course Grady got loved on nearly continuously by his Grandma and Pappy and Aunt Beth and Aunt Amy and Aunt Stephanie and Uncle Greg. I think I barely held him for 4 days. Which is sort of good now that he's nearly 17 lbs!
He's doing great now though--eating all kinds of real food. His favorites so far appear to be my birthday cake and blueberries. And he's working on crawling. All the motions are there but he can't quite figure out how to coordinate them all together at the right times. He's really a crack-up! I'm pretty sure my life was awfully dull before he came along.
We also finally celebrated his baptism in April. We all breathed a sign of relief on that one. He will go to heaven--well, at least so far. My best friend who is Grady's Godmother and her daughter came out for a visit and for the baptism. It was SO wonderful to have her here. We discussed this and came up with the fact that this was the first time she came to visit me in a place I lived in about 10 years. I wish we did not live so far away.
And so now it's May which means Mark starts working Saturdays again. :( Guess it's just me and G hanging out for half the weekend. We will miss Daddy a lot!
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