An Overnight Sensation

Don't ya wish you could wake up and magically take on a newfound talent? It's amazing how little people have this figured out. On Friday night, Little Dude could not stand up on anything other than us...and he needed to use our hands to make himself vertical. But he ALWAYS wanted to be vertical, so that posed a problem for him and a slight annoyance for us.


At 9:30pm we heard crying from the race car room upstairs (dude's theme) and walked in to find him standing up in his crib not knowing what to do next. We laughed and were a little scared that this would become a new sleepy time habit. This morning he decided that he no longer needs our hands to elevate himself and is standing up on all objects, stationary, moving....whatever. He's even trying to stand up on toys that only stand a few inches off the ground. He also gets up on his knees constantly, which he never did before. The "crawling" thing came before figuring out the whole knees concept, so he still army crawls everywhere he goes. We're wondering if now he'll figure out that the knees are meant to be a part of the crawling equation. Little Dude is like a new kid, which is pretty miraculous to watch as a parent.


Yesterday brought heavenly 75 degree temps and sun, so we loaded up food, juice, goldfish, stroller, change of clothes, diapers, toys, camera, sunblock...you get the idea...and went with the masses to the zoo. It took 30 minutes and a lot of patience to park (good thing Mile High Dad was driving), which made us that much more excited to fight the crowds with stroller in tow. This was our first "family" trip to a place designed for screaming children and sippy cups. Tim was feeling pretty cool that we now are "one of those couples with a stroller and cheerios on hand." Wessums and araCay joined us with kiddos and the two little dudes had a blast looking at eachother. They're getting to be quite interactive with eachother now, which makes for fun times. Little Dude came face to face with a curious and playful monkey. The monkey enjoyed the interaction far more than my son did (see the video). It was astonishing the number of children at the zoo. And disturbing how many 6-7 year olds had passifiers stuffed in their mouth. As araCay says, "Time to cut the chord people."

At our house last night Princess P (3 years old) emptied the entire toy chest in the office, plopped the boys in the middle of the chaos and closed the door. She wanted to take care of her boys and protect them...from what I don't really know, but she felt pretty good about herself. I kept peeking in and Little Dude would be climbing on Valociraptor, they'd share a toy with eachother, hit eachother and Princess P would tap them on the head and tell them not to hit eachother. She would then call Little Dude "Riley" because she thinks that is a special thing to do. It was really very endearing.


Today (Sunday) it's snowing. Welcome to Mile High Schizo weather. Enjoy the videos!