Three Steps

Sunday night was beautiful. Ian slept for a 7 hour stretch (and so did we). Yesterday was great, we got a lot done, and formulated a plan for this week that includes a camping trip and getting our work done. We hope! Last night was a little tougher - Ian wouldn't stay asleep in his crib. It's normally a fairly easy task to take a sleeping boy and put him in his crib. But now he wakes up and if we rub his back for long enough, will fall asleep enough that we can walk away. Now we can see why he's so fussy. He's working on this walking thing!

For the last few days, Ian far prefers to hold onto your hand and walk with you than crawl to get to any destination. And he likes his walker on the deck for trucking back and forth.

He cries when he gets to the end of the deck, though. He's figured out how to turn the walker around, however, and that's helpful, sometimes. He'll do better after his nap this afternoon.

Without the walker, he's trying a few steps whenever the opportunity arises. This will be an exciting week!