It baffles me how much Abram is growing and changing and learning every day. He gets smarter (and a bit more defiant) by the minute. Yesterday was a big milestone for this guy. He's been walking for almost two months, but he's recently gotten really fast and has almost completely eliminated crawling from his repertoire. Every day, he goes and stares out the back window at stuff in the yard, trying to get me to let him out there to play.
Normally I would indulge him, but it's been on and off rainy these last few days and everything is muddy. Also, Quinn put some kind of fertilizer or something out in the yard last weekend and we haven't wanted Abram playing out there until we were sure the water had made it soak in. So finally I asked him if he wanted to check the mail. He always agrees. It used to be that his agreement took the form of a head nod and uplifted arms for me to pick him up and carry him out there. But now, it looks like a bobbling head as he marches to the front door and tries to open it. So we went out there (him walking - me watching closely), checked the mail, and he continued walking on the side walk away from the house. He's done this before and we've gone about 100 yards around the corner and then turned around.
Yesterday we just kept walking. And I wasn't walking at a very slow pace. It was actually quite a pleasant pace for a 32 week pregnant mom. We walked the usual path that we take him in the stroller - which is why I think he did a very good job staying on course. We live on this street that we love because no one ever drives on it. It goes off of the main neighborhood street and then reconnects about a quarter mile down. Our route is kind of like a track; a half mile track. And Abram walked the entire thing all by himself. He would grab for my hand whenever he saw a step down or up (meaning a crack in the sidewalk that shifted up because of tree roots). But he never really looked up at me. He was so intent on looking at everything, but he didn't touch anything! There was a weird lid of some kind on the sidewalk at one point and he looked like he wanted to go for it, but I just said "leave that alone" and he walked around it and continued on. It was incredible. I kept asking him if he wanted me to pick him up and he would shake his head every time. Maybe there are a lot of almost 16 month olds that would walk half a mile and cry when they are picked up and taken inside at the end because they wanted to keep going. But I guess I didn't think there were.
Since it was an impromptu trip, I didn't have a camera or even my phone with me. I really wish I had, but I'll take one on the next walk - as I'm sure there will be more.
During lunch, I noticed that he's got a Quinn Smith/Jim Halpert hair wing thing going on behind his ears and it's pretty much adorable.
I think this means he might need another hair cut soon, but maybe we'll just let it grow and see what happens. Maybe he'll be able to fly soon.
And the day ended with more racetracks, but this one is inside on Lightning McQueen with Daddy pushing him as fast as he can go without face planting in his socks. I am usually lying on the couch dealing with a crazy girl baby and contractions after dinner and they will zoom by every few seconds. Sometimes Abram will wave, sometimes he's talking on his phone (wonder where he learned to talk on the phone while driving... I always use my hands free :), sometimes he is concentrating on something very hard (not falling off?) Anyway. It's pretty cute.
My little baby boy is growing up so fast!
Normally I would indulge him, but it's been on and off rainy these last few days and everything is muddy. Also, Quinn put some kind of fertilizer or something out in the yard last weekend and we haven't wanted Abram playing out there until we were sure the water had made it soak in. So finally I asked him if he wanted to check the mail. He always agrees. It used to be that his agreement took the form of a head nod and uplifted arms for me to pick him up and carry him out there. But now, it looks like a bobbling head as he marches to the front door and tries to open it. So we went out there (him walking - me watching closely), checked the mail, and he continued walking on the side walk away from the house. He's done this before and we've gone about 100 yards around the corner and then turned around.
Yesterday we just kept walking. And I wasn't walking at a very slow pace. It was actually quite a pleasant pace for a 32 week pregnant mom. We walked the usual path that we take him in the stroller - which is why I think he did a very good job staying on course. We live on this street that we love because no one ever drives on it. It goes off of the main neighborhood street and then reconnects about a quarter mile down. Our route is kind of like a track; a half mile track. And Abram walked the entire thing all by himself. He would grab for my hand whenever he saw a step down or up (meaning a crack in the sidewalk that shifted up because of tree roots). But he never really looked up at me. He was so intent on looking at everything, but he didn't touch anything! There was a weird lid of some kind on the sidewalk at one point and he looked like he wanted to go for it, but I just said "leave that alone" and he walked around it and continued on. It was incredible. I kept asking him if he wanted me to pick him up and he would shake his head every time. Maybe there are a lot of almost 16 month olds that would walk half a mile and cry when they are picked up and taken inside at the end because they wanted to keep going. But I guess I didn't think there were.
Since it was an impromptu trip, I didn't have a camera or even my phone with me. I really wish I had, but I'll take one on the next walk - as I'm sure there will be more.
During lunch, I noticed that he's got a Quinn Smith/Jim Halpert hair wing thing going on behind his ears and it's pretty much adorable.
And the day ended with more racetracks, but this one is inside on Lightning McQueen with Daddy pushing him as fast as he can go without face planting in his socks. I am usually lying on the couch dealing with a crazy girl baby and contractions after dinner and they will zoom by every few seconds. Sometimes Abram will wave, sometimes he's talking on his phone (wonder where he learned to talk on the phone while driving... I always use my hands free :), sometimes he is concentrating on something very hard (not falling off?) Anyway. It's pretty cute.
My little baby boy is growing up so fast!
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