in the last couple weeks, norah’s speech has come over the peak and now you can have mini conversations with her, which are awesome. She was talking a little before and could clearly understand you, but it has just exploded lately and you can have back and forths without issue.
Category: Development
Norah is crawling
While there have been a few claimed sightings in the last week or 2, we feel safe saying as of today, Norah is officially crawling. She will crawl a few feet, sit back up, play with some toy, then go crawl some more. It is almost time to put the gates back up. We already had to lower her bed and she was pulling up on it.
Norah’s First Words
While we are not 100% in agreement, it would seem that Da-Da (daddy) was norah’s first word, and that has been a few weeks now. She also says something that sounds like Ma-Ma. Obviously these words come out in reference to one of entering the room, playing with her, etc. She also says Uh-oh, which is also quite funny.
Mommy progress…
mom is doing well as she progresses through the incubation of baby #2. The midwife appointments have been going great, heartbeat and everything seems fine. It is funny, cause when she was pregnant with Mason, it was like normal. This time around, she has more of the pregnant kind of things. Like she is much more tired than the first time around (which is to be expected). Also, she has this crazy sense of smell, but it is primarily the ability to scope out things that smell BAD, which is unfortunate. She also is a bit more moody and crampy and stuff (sorry sweetie, it is true). That combined with the fact that the midwife is confident, it would seem we are leaning towards a girl, which would be cool.
Not saying I have a preference, I will be excited for a boy or a girl, but having one of each would be cool. We shall see!
Mason and his words…
So like every child, Mason is beginning to identify things. I mean he has been able to identify things for quite a while now, in that you could say “go get lion” and he would go get his stuffed lion, etc….
But now he is spitting the words back at you… You can point to a ball in a book and he will say “baaa” (baaa can also mean bottle)… other things include “burrr” (bird), “caaaa” (car, the is is like aahh), “caaa” (cat, the a is like AAAAAple), “mom”, “daaa”, etc…
It is pretty cool to watch…
Mason is a walking fool
And by fool, I mean he is getting a BIT cocky and not paying attention and falling, but such is the life of a baby I guess. Let me backtrack here… on Tuesday, March 13th, I went, for the first time in like a year, out drinking with the Audi people. And robyn and rebecca were hanging out, and low and behold Mason got up and started walking. (Rebecca needs to finish that post up).
Sure, I missed it, but that is ok, cause he has been walking ever since. By that friday (my birthday) I had the new camcorder and everything up and running, so I have video footage somewhere. He began walking slowly and cautiously… but time has passed and he is more and more… confident… and thus he has taken a few falls… a bruise here or there and last weekend he managed to scrape up his nose by falling on the sidewalk while out with grandma and grandpa Dugan… poor guy.
So he is a walking fool, which is fun. It would be nicer though if he would be willing to hold your hand… he will have nothing to do with that, and thus it is hard to walk with him. He wants to go whereever he wants… be it the street, right in front if people, etc.
First Step Confirmed…
If there had been any question that his previous first step was not ENOUGH to be considered a first step, and there was a bit on contention, today he was up in our room… again standing, and he took about 4-6 steps in a row. Sure, he only moved about 1 foot to the bed, but that was TOTALLY walking.
So I would argue it is official.
first step?
So technically, mason took his first step tonight. I was walking around with him (he was walking, holding on to my hands) in the kitchen. Lately, he has been able to STAND on his own without issue, but he hasn’t stepped. We have attempted to lure him into walking, but he usually plops down on his but, crawls the distance (as little as 12 inches) and stands back up again.
So while he was standing there, on his own, I stood just out of his reach with my outstretched hand. He looked at it for a moment and took 1 step with 1 foot to get close enough to grab my hand. Once he had my hand he took the next 2 steps to hold onto my leg.
When he walks holding your hand, he actually doesn’t put that much pressure on you in any way, which leads me to believe if he WANTED to, he could walk on his own, since I am not acting as a very large support for him. But for whatever reason, he isn’t there yet. I am sure he will get there, and he did seem happy with himself that he took a step on his own immediately after he did it. So perhaps I will have more to report soon?
Midwife Checkup, Baby v2 Due Date
We met with Sarah again today for our first real checkup. Rebecca got a little poking and prodding and I kept Mason occupied. Evidently Sarah thinks Rebecca’s uterus it large for how long she has been pregnant. Twins? That could be scary. (Honestly, neither of us have any history of twins in our family, so I doubt it. It doesn’t help that we have been watching a bunch of stuff on the Discovery Health channel about people who have had multiples.)
We did get to hear the heartbeat on the doppler though. So that was cool. As I have said in the past, it is always cool to hear the heartbeat.
Our due date has been set as 9/1/2007, FYI.
Baby, v2
We are having another baby! Due date is estimated around end of august. We are again going to be doing the midwife route, although a different one this time. Caroline has moved to northern California, and we do not want to use Jaren.