Pirate

Philip swiped Stephanie's Pirate Uniqua doll this morning while she wasn't looking. He was quite sneaky about it. And do you know what he said when he had the doll in his grasp? He looked at his ill-gotten booty and he said, "Arrrr!" I kid you not. He'll make a fine pirate one day.

Haircut

Just kidding. No haircut for this one yet. From the looks of things, it will be awhile before he needs one.

This picture was taken on Monday. I know this because that's the day I decided there would be no baths because I was exhausted. Clearly I had forgotten Parenting Rule #4,172 - "Do Not Feed the Baby Spaghetti on Days when You are Too Tired to Give Baths." sigh - so we had baths on Monday after all. It was all in his hair - ewwww!

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!