Bear Is Walking

Talk about a fun phase. Bear has been taking a few steps here, a few steps there but yesterday he walked halfway across the room. He just seemed to really get it. Today as we left Kid Kare we always say and wave bye to the women that work there he started doing that wave where he's really waving to himself. I'd forgotten about that but there he was waving bye.

His most favorite game at the moment is to pull all of the cubes with toys out and throw them around the living room. I've just about given up cleaning them up because as soon as I start putting them away he comes crawling right over to throw it all over the floor again. He is in that phase where he is just exploring everything. His new play area is the kitchen. He has to take everything out from underneath the stove and I find toys stashed in there all the time. Watch out for your toes, if you don't move he just opens it up right over your toes. I'll admit to a chuckle when I hear Jim yelp cause I know Bear has opened the drawer :-)

He now has his bottom two teeth. Jim had his chuckles every time I said, "If you bite me again we are done!" Should have more coming since he is ALWAYS chewing on his fingers. More than anything it's clear that Bear is ALL about some Cooper. Whenever possible he is crawling over Cooper, pulling Cooper's ears or basically just jumping on Cooper. I know when I hear Cooper cry it's because Bear has attacked. No joke I found Cooper writhing on the floor and Bear just sitting over him grinning. He must have been pulling Cooper's ears because they were beat red! Yet Coop just stays there instead of running away.

Maintenance came by to repair the screen Bear busted out of the back patio today! I'm thinking I should keep a tally of all the damage he does so later in life when he says he's an angel I can show him all the destruction he caused :-) I did cut his hair- just a little in the back. I draw the line with a baby mullet. He's got the fun mad scientist look now.

I won't even start in on his sleep habits. I've considered paying someone to come and get him to nap by himself if that gives you any indication. Other than that he is my angel who is about to turn 1!! I can't realy fathom that. He couldn't even crawl when we moved here it just doesn't seem possible. I can hear the thump thump thump on the floor- Bear is here for some attention!