Sweet G

Sweet G is on the move more and more. This month he's hit a few milestones:

Several weeks ago I walked into his room in the morning and found him sitting straight up in his crib, just looking at me with a big shit-eatin' grin across his chubby cheeks, like "Hey Mama... look! I can sit up now." I'm sure it doesn't sound particularly overwhelming to read it, but to walk in and expect to see your little baby on his back the way you left him and then to see that, like a little magician, he's gotten himself upright... it really makes an impression.

And then from sitting up to pulling up... Little man will commando crawl to anything taller than him (bottom stair, Cole's chair, couch) and pull himself up to standing. He even does naked pull-ups in the bath on the side of the tub, quite a feat considering how slippery it must be for him. He's ready to move! Gi-gi will get himself wherever the hell he wants to be... I'll leave him with some toys on one side of the house and go to do something on the other side, and if I'm gone too long I'll hear grunting and look up to see my little determined man commando crawling to get me, sometimes from several rooms away. It is very endearing.

All of this motoring, sitting up and pulling up means he was dangerously close to flipping himself out of his crib. I had Dan drop his crib mattress to the lowest level this past weekend, so we don't have a repeat of what happened with Cole...

When Cole was beginning to do the same things Graham is, we were a little slower to lower his crib mattress and he DID flip himself out. Fortunately Dan was standing right there and caught him when it happened.

My boys are fearless!