Michael's Development Blog

Yesterday was Michael's first day at Little Doves Daycare and he seems to have had a pretty good time. He'll be going three days a week while Anton is taking classes at Tacoma Community College. He didn't take a nap because there was too much new stuff going on and he didn't eat much lunch it sounds like...gotta figure out what they're giving him because usually he puts it away like there's no tomorrow.

The first tooth has finally broken through the gum barrier. This is a very small step for tooth-kind, but a giant leap forward into a whole new realm of energy consumption for tooth-kind. We are all very excited. Michael seems to be handling it very well thus far, no unusual fussiness...knock on wood.

Definitely been a week for walking records. He takes 15-20 drunken steps at a time now...if he has a goal in mind like the Christmas Tree or something else he's not supposed to get into then he walks almost like a pro. We threw a big party with decorations, chocolate cupcakes, raspberry peach cupcakes, a couple of roasts and a lasagna Grandpa P brought. Mom's Division head, Amy, was the first to arrive right on time at 1pm. She was followed shortly by Donna and Jen, Evan Aas, Aimee, John, Nicole, Josephine, and Jeanette, Grandma and Papa B with Great-Grandma J, Grandpa P and Missy, Allison and Darius, Auntie Bekkah, Grandma and Grandpa C, and Mark Baklawski and Gail Workman showed up a bit later. Unfortunately the Richards, the Welborns, Megan, Mickey, Marc and Andy, and a few others had to cancel. Michael was massively overstimulated today with all the people and presents. He dove straight into his new tunnel. By the time he made it to his cupcake he was so tired he didn...

Well we're all sick, including Michael. He woke up this morning with 102 degree fever, quickly knocked down to 100 with a dose of Tylenol. He's still strangely chipper despite being clearly uncomfortable. He wants to have fun and be happy but he feels icky so he randomly starts crying. Hopefully it's over quick and we can get back to normal. Yesterday he took a couple unassisted and unsupported steps a few times, all of which daddy missed because he was laying in bed sick :( One time he was standing against grandma Curtin and took two steps over to the couch. Another time he walked two steps between the walls of the baby jail. This morning he took two-three steps from his box toward his pacifier on the floor. Michael has also been pointing at things that he's interested in and he noticed all the new Christmas decorations. He particularly likes the blinking snowmen.

Michael is initiating games of peek-a-boo now. Very awesome, quite often while changing his diaper. He's also waving occasionally and likely said "hi" the other day. Other words such as "Mama" and "Dada" have been sid many times but we've yet to note any clear association with our persons when he says them. Lost some momentum toward walking because he crawls so well now but if I hold his hand and drag him along he does take alternating steps and he stands against everything so it shouldn't be long.

Last weekend Michael pulled himself into a kneeling position on Saturday in his crib. On Sunday he was pulling himself up to standing on anything he could use. A couple weeks ago he started crawling in earnest and now he can get across the room in a flash to get to anything he shouldn't be playing with.

Crawls for a few paces for the past week or so...won't be long now. Spitup has improved quite a bit over the last week, still not gone but not a constant anymore.

Michael had a great time :) First Game Album