Day at the Zoo

David, Aunt Debbie, Katie and I spent yesterday morning at the zoo. It seemed like a good way to celebrate feeling better from cleft palate surgery almost two weeks ago. David is doing and acting better -- last night he slept the entire night, which was good for me too! For more than a week he's not slept more than a couple of hours at a time. Sunday involved a car ride to Gas City, then to Daleville and back to Muncie at 3:30 in the morning and he was still crying when I pulled into the garage at 6! He still cries when he eats -- I'm sure that a mouth full of sutures doesn't feel good, even when you're eating baby food. He's not wearing the arm bands in the picture -- I'm hoping he has NO memories from this experience and decided we shouldn't have any pictures either. David seems to be getting used to having them, although he can't feed himself and that's frustrating to him. (And when we go out in public, people ask if he fell down the stairs or out of bed, so I don't take him out too far either. People can be so rude!)

Swinging in the spring

David loves spring! Swinging is one of his favorite things to do right now. (And Mom likes it because he sits still for a few minutes!) David is trying to cut more teeth -- I think we're working on the bottom one-year molars now. He's been a little cranky in the last couple of days. David also has found a new favorite veggie -- lima beans! And we went cold turkey on the night time bottle on Thursday. I think he's growing again, at least his legs seem longer in the past week. So baby David isn't much of a baby anymore!

New teeth and pajama day

Yesterday David cut another tooth, so this is the second one for the month and the ninth one total. He's been a little cranky, but seems to be a little better about it today. His teeth haven't come in order, but the doctor says not to worry and there's no perfect order to them. He's getting stronger and gaining in confidence to explore more of the world! David is not afraid of the stairs either and can navigate them quite quickly with a "stealth-like" quiet. The weather that we've been having has been nice too, so we can get outdoors and walk Holly more often. This week he told a little boy in his class to "be nice." And he seems to be warm blooded -- at least he's happiest in shorts and a shirt during the day. Today was pajama day at school, which was pretty cute, but we took shorts for later.

Running the Race

As you can see in the video, David is now running and he's got an entire world to explore! The baby gates are up and he's found the "circle" in the house to chase the dog. David has been growing too so he's started the next size of clothes. He's also learned how to turn the television off and on, loves pushing buttons on the telephone and the shape sorter is the toy of the week.

First Steps!

Yeah! David took his first steps this morning. There was no bribe involved, no warmup, and it was a good surprise -- in fact there were about five of them from the recliner to the toy box. And he wasn't wearing shoes -- just socks!

Chopsticks please

On Sunday David practiced using his trainer chopsticks -- they have cute little bunnies on the end. I made sticky rice with stir fry and he really liked it. Just like using silverware, he prefers if someone will load up the chopsticks with food, then he will put it in his mouth...or drop it on the floor when he's full. Hooray for Holly who is always available to serve as vacuum cleaner!

A good Saturday

David's been doing art projects at day care, so I got out the crayons for him tonight to see what he could do. He's not so interested in coloring on paper as he is in attempting to taste the crayon. But he was able to scribble some "ketchup" on the omelet on the paper. Tasting crayons must be a "boy" thing. :-)

We both had haircuts today and David actually took a two and a half hour nap. That was amazing!