Update

We do walk now, by the way. Philip started really walking 2 weeks ago. ...If I ever have time to figure out how to upload video onto the computer, I'll try to get it on here. That is my goal for the week.

He also has started talking - a lot! OK, I can't understand most of it, Occasionally, he'll say "mama" though.

1st Birthday

Well we still haven't gotten around to having an actual party for the Lil Dude but he did get to eat some chocolate cake.

Hmmm. What's this?

Ohhhh! It's GOOD!

He's starting to walk now. All evening he has been standing up, walking a few steps, and then falling on his rear, and then starting it all over again. He's finally decided he wants to walk.

Walking & Talking (kind of)

He's got a few words in his vocabulary now. The most recent and most used is "uh-oh". He has also taken up to 5 steps. He can stand up on his own now without pulling up on something but he really still just doesn't seem to care all that much about walking on his own. However, he does like to crawl up the stairs on his own and Mommy likes that.

I promised some pictures.

So here you go . . .

When Will He Walk?

I can't believe it. This baby still isn't walking. And here I thought he would be early. Even Meredith was walking by now - she was 1 year and 1 week. Philip has been pulling himself up and walking around furniture for months. Why isn't he walking? The answer is: He just doesn't see the need. He can get wherever he wants to go. He can "bear crawl" really fast and he walks behind the little cars all over the living room. Monday night, John and Hayden saw him take a step by himself - it was a falling step, but a step nonetheless, and he did it again last night. So, MAYBE he's working on it.

Speaking of the "bear crawl"...Meredith and Stephanie were playing with him the other day. They were bear crawling back and forth because they saw him do it and thought it looked funny. And I swear I heard Philip say, "medoit." John thinks I'm making it up but that's what it sounded like and as I'm in charge of the baby book - that's what is going in there.

Speaking of the baby book, maybe I'd better go find it and get some of this stuff in there!

ONE YEAR OLD TODAY!

My baby is one-year-old today! He's such a little sweetheart. This weekend I was sitting on the couch and he crawled over, pulled himself up to look at me, then he waved and said "Hi." Then he irritated me by refusing to say it again. (Hayden and Meredith were like that too - they'd say something once and refuse to say it again. Meredith said her name when she was 2 & refused to say it again until she was 3!) Stephanie, on the other hand, would repeat just about anything over and over as long as you kept asking her.) So far, Philip only has 2 words: Hi & mama. He's not walking just yet - by himself anyway. He'll walk all over the place while hanging onto one of the little riding cars we have. He doesn't like to walk holding onto your fingers either. He seems so small to me. I'm not sure if he's just littler than the others were at 1 or if it's just because the others are so big now. Or maybe it's just because he's the last of the brood and I need him to be little for awhile longer.

Don't worry, I'll get some current pictures on here soon!

My Little Angel

I was holding my little baby last night and he dozed off to sleep. And I looked at him and just looked at his perfect little face with its perfect little nose and chin and lips and eyes. He truly is a beautiful baby. I was almost awestruck by this little guy. And then I got hit with a blast from the future and I could see myself as a grandmother and my little baby would have a baby of his own.

I hope he will take the time to look at his sleeping baby the way I saw him last night. And I hope he will be awestruck by her as well.



And, I hope, I truly hope, that when he looks at his beautiful little baby who just dozed off in his arms it is in the middle of the gazillionth night in a row that she has woken up 2 or 3 times a night thereby keeping him from getting a decent night of sleep - ever. And, I hope he remembers his mother's (that would be me) words of wisdom, "Someday I hope you will have a child of your own and I hope she will be JUST LIKE YOU!"

Then I hope my baby will call his mother (again, me) the next morning just to say, "I'm sorry for all those sleepless nights and I understand now how you felt."

To which I will reply, "Do not call here before 10am again. I am still trying to catch up on the sleep you refused to let me have when you were a baby!"