We WANTED This????

Those baby books are full of crap. I've found it's better to just not open them...not even cast your gaze in their direction. The fact that Little Dude is 10 months old and only has one tooth is perfectly fine. The fact that his best buddy, Valociraptor, who is only 5 days his elder, now has 9 teeth and has started the walking process, has been slightly disturbing to the virgin parents that we are. Nonetheless, we're okay with that, but we prayed silent prayers over and over that Little Dude would start putting his bootie in the air and at least show signs of the will to crawl.

Little did we know that the act of circumsizing him (since his birth mom didn't do it) would be the driving force behind all kinds of fun new advancements. Mile High Dad said, "Watch, once we take care of his manhood, he's gonna be like Sampson and take off doing all the things he hasn't been able to do so far." I laughed. I'm not laughing anymore. Within one week of having surgery, Little Dude is crawling around the house, eating cords, ripping books, getting stuck in-between furniture and crawling up into bookcases. He has a few lumps on his head from this new-found source of exercise and cries a lot more throughout the day when he hurts himself. Sitting in one spot lookin at the world didn't provide opportunity to bang his head, so he's not sure how to handle that obstacle yet.

One reality that hasn't hit him yet is that he can't crawl THROUGH furniture. He tries and tries to move forward into his wooden rocker to get at that crazy fan, throwing his arms out to the side like Superman when he gets frustrated, but the chair doesn't move and this is not acceptable to him. For 5 minutes we worked on defeating the chair, but he did not turn invisible during the process, so finally an alternate route was taken.

Did we really want this???? I guess we did. After all, we don't want Valociraptor losing his first tooth at the same time Little Dude gets his second one. Development is good.