Max updates

Are you ready for this?? Hold on. My baby grew up this week. He's practically a toddler now!...

Max took his first steps last Saturday! I was helping him show off his new found skill of standing without holding onto things (which he'd only known for like 2 days) when he reached out his arms to Daddy and took 5 wobbly steps. I was so proud! Since then he's improved by leaps and bounds and you can pretty much bet that if he sees something he wants he'll be walking to get it. Daddy still doesn't call him a walker, but I do. David gets hung up on technicalities. He says he doesn't know how to walk yet - that he's still in the process of learning to walk. If he knew how to walk then he'd be doing all walking and no crawling. I quite disagree. He can take 10+ steps and walk all the way across the living room if he wants too. That looks like walking to me! (personally, I think this is the Calvin Johnson rule at it's finest - and we didn't want that called on Calvin, Honey, so let's not call it on Max!  ...complete the process my foot!)

On Sunday, Max cut his second molar. It was a very big weekend for him! I actually found 2 molars this weekend, but one has been there for a while. I'm guessing it's the result of a major fussy phase he went through 2 weeks ago. It really explains a lot now that I think about it. He's still working that tooth through so he's still a bit cranky. This time it helps to know why!

He's back to sleeping the whole night now! Yay for me! Sleep is so wonderful. :) It took some doing (like all of January) but we finally broke his "get up 4 times a night" habit that he started when he was sick last fall. I'm so glad that's behind us.

And finally, we are planning his birthday party. His very first birthday party. My baby is going to be ONE in 2 weeks!! Can you believe it? I can't. Seems like just yesterday....