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One year, 2 months update:

1. Can walk like a pro. Walks around the apartment like he lives here.
2. Loves to crawl up and down stairs. Can lift his leg and pull himself up if someone holds onto one hand. He always leads with his left foot.
3. Still not sure if he favors his left or right hand.
4. When reading his "Baby Galileo Sees the Stars" book, he loves to turn the pages really fast to get to the last page where the moon lights up. When we get to the page with the sleeping bird and ask, "Devin, where's the BIRD?" He will point to the bird and tap it with his hand. He does the same on the page with the whale.
5. Sometimes he'll come sit down on the floor next to Davis or me and rest his head in our lap.
6. Loves to feed Lucy biscuits and pepperoni dog treats. He knows to let go of the treat when she takes it in her mouth, though sometimes he's a little more stubborn about letting go of the pepperoni strip.
7. When we ask, "Where's mama's nose?" he grabs my nose.
8. Loves to thrash and splash his arms around in the bathtub. Davis started to dunk him backwards, wetting the back of his head. At first Devin looked nervous, then he started to laugh. After that, he started leaning forward in the water, and putting one side of his head and his ear underwater like he's listening to it.
9. Still no words.
10. Can probably drink right out of a cup, though we are too nervous to try it. We just saw him drinking his bathwater using a container.

Sunday afternoon, family stroll in the park

Lucy is in heaven. Devin feeds her biscuits and they've grown mutually fond of each other now.


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Unintended consequences

You may have read the recent post about babies watching television. Soon afterwards, we got Devin a Sesame Street DVD of ABC's, but he definitely prefers the Baby Einstein video. I think the latter video appeals to him because it's made up of short vignettes of things that make absolutely no sense. Like worms popping out of apples, followed by colorful turning gears, and then computer generated bouncing worms. But hey, it works, it keeps Devin's attention focused on something other than screaming, wriggling, or crawling head first into Lucy's butt.

One side effect of his new television activity, however, took me by surprise. Last week when I was catching my breath and sitting down for the first time all day, Devin was seated on the other couch, mesmerized by the strange kaleidoscope on the TV screen. Some music came on, and he instantly stood up on the couch, then turned around, and slid -- quite deftly, I might add -- down the side of the couch, feet first, on his belly, and landed on the floor like a cat. Then, with both arms held out straight in front of him like Frankenstein, he put one leg in front of the other and walked stiffly across the living room to the TV set where he began clawing at the screen. This was a week ago, and since then, he's been walking with impressive balance and coordination. Who would've thought that TV would be the catalyst that set him off on walking, when we solely intended for it to keep his butt glued to the couch?

Stay posted, I'm going to add a video of him walking soon.

One plus one

Update on my progress at a year and a month:

1. I now have some bottom molars peeking through my gums...mostly on my left side. I'm continuing to chew on everything and to drool everywhere.
2. I'm eating more table food like tofu, rice, and seaweed soup; macaraoni and cheese; french toast; scrambled eggs; quartered and peeled grapes; bread. I'm also eating cottage cheese, Goldfish snacks (the low-sodium kind), and pasta or noodles.
3. I'm starting to transition to cow's milk, too. I had a few days of goat's milk. I like it just fine, though the first couple of days I pooped five times a day (perhaps that was a little too much information for you).
4. I like holding the phone up to my ear and talking into it. But if anyone says anything back to me though the phone, I become very very silent and confused.
5. I used to like making Baby Teradactyl noises, but I've progressed now to making T-Rex roars.
6. I'm walking across the room now without much assistance. In fact, today I walked with Mama all the way out to the mailbox at the end of our driveway. Of course, I held her hand.
7. I've learned not to bite anyone anymore.
8. I sometimes blow kisses on command. Sometimes.
9. I still have trouble clapping my hands, but I can bang on the table quite well.
10. Today, I saw a cat on TV and I said, "Kuh, kuh, kuh."

Safari

Marta elena took these photos of me right after I returned from my expedition where I captured a hippo wearing a bowtie. My overalls strap came undone while I was wrestling the beast to the ground.