My Present Came A Day Late

All I wanted for Christmas was for Erin to take her first steps. I was a little disappointed that she wouldn't give it a try yesterday choosing instead to drop down and crawl to me each and every time we attempted to induce her to walk. Well fast forward a few hours to this morning and Erin took two steps to me. Then she did it again and again, it was awesome. She was so excited by my excitement and was so happy to walk to me! Of course I rushed her downstairs to show Mindy and she did it again before becoming too distracted by the piles of toys at my Mom's house. Nevertheless it was extremely exciting.

Hope everyone had a Merry Christmas!

Sign of the Times

I always wonder what should count as baby's first word. Is it when the say "mama" or "dada", when they parrot something you say or is it when they say a word and obviously understand its meaning?

Erin has been saying mama, dada, and all the usual baby words for quite some time and recently she began parroting our speech. The funniest example has to be when I use my "authority voice" to get her attention, usually when she is climbing the stairs, to which now she responds with a "no". It is hard not to laugh and often I do.

This is the usual exchange now:

Me - "ERIN!"

Erin - "No"

Me - laughter

I really wish it wasn't so funny because I am trying to establish boundaries, such as don't climb the steps or put small objects in her mouth. Oh well, so much for being an authority figure in her life...

The Dreaded Christmas Letter Online Edition

In even more glory than the Santa photo, here it is...

Front Page (click to read)



Back Page



Unfortunately the original images are not working correctly because of an issue with Blogger so they are now linked through Picasa. You may need to click on the zoom (magnifying glass icon in the upper right) to read the letters. If and when this is fixed I will get things setup properly again.

Giving it a try

Erin, despite cruising the furniture for months now, has yet to take her first step. It is a bit of a puzzler as she practically runs when she cruises and has fantastic balance. So in keeping with the tradition of this blog I am going to complain that she hasn't begun walking yet to spur her on. If you look through past posts you will see that every time I mention that "Erin hasn't done x" she immediately does x to prove her old man wrong. I'll report back in a few days.