Dewdrops In The Garden

This week started off with a bang and ended with a boom as Ocean achieved four milestones.  On Monday, Ocean began standing in his crib.  I walked in to check on him after putting him down for his nap, only to find him standing up and smiling, as if to say “Hey Mom, how cool am I?”  I had to laugh and brace myself for the work ahead (which included stressing over him every time he fell down and went “boom”).

On Tuesday, Dad discovered that Ocean was officially crawling (apparently “Gamma” discovered his crawling earlier in the day, but we told her it didn’t count since she forgot to tell us).  Previously, he’d do the army crawl, but hadn’t yet mastered your classic hands-and-knees form.  We thought he’d skip crawling entirely and go straight for walking.  We were close in our prediction, because this week he also started walking along things, i.e., cruising and walking with his walker (a little Mail Carrier the Reeps gave us back when Marley was just a wee lass). 

Now that he can stand up, he decided he will have none of that “sitting down stuff”, which means we don’t get to “sit down” either as we are always on the run keeping him out of trouble.  Ocean just began doing the sign for “More”.  He had previously learned the sign for “All done.”  He seems to like to use the “All done” sign more often.  In fact, he tries calling “All done” when dinner has just begun …  especially if it’s any green vegetable.  Good try, Ocean.

"Thank God you showed up; I don't know how to get down!"

Marley was sweet enough to hand her baby car down to Ocean, so we rewarded her with a brand new Strider bike.  For those not familiar with the Strider, it’s a bike without pedals.  I know you are probably thinking, “Well, what’s the point?”  I thought the same thing, but the purpose of the bike is to teach them to balance so that they can skip training wheels entirely.  Marley loves her new “weh-woh” (yellow) bike with her matching helmet.

Ready for Ride the Rockies.