He's Growing So Darn Fast

My little guy isn't so little anymore. He's crawling, pulling himself up to stand EVERY chance he gets, he talks to you (well, no real discernable words yet, but HE knows what he's saying!). He's also gotten affectionate recently, which I am very grateful for because he has always been the push me off when I kiss him kind of kid. Lately though, he reaches up behind him and strokes my face when I hold him and I kiss his head. It's a moment of sheer bliss, I gotta tell ya.

I'm not looking forward to child-proofing though. My house is extremely NON child-friendly, so I have a lot of packing to do. Being in a small Manhattan apartment though, I will have to box everything I find below 3 feet and put it in storage. Ugh. I have to do it though, Theo is extremely curious and there will be no stopping him once I let him out of the gate. The kid is fast too! And once he gets something in those meaty little hands of his, he absolutely REFUSES to let go. You have to literally pry it from his vise-grip while he screams at you to LET GO! in baby language. He is something else.

Look at him in his first playground swing ride. This was during his weekend with his Grandma in the Pocono Mountains. She said he wasn't scared, he just looked around at first with that usual, serious, eyebrow-furrowed face of his, almost like, "What the heck have they gotten me into now..." Then he started getting chatty, almost as if he was letting them know, "Ok, now I want you to push me just a tiny bit harder than that last time".

Like I said, he's something else.