Our baby boy is not really a baby anymore! He turned 1 on October 1. Some pictures from the messy event!
He absolutely loved the cupcake - and the piece of cake he had the next day! Susan and I cannot believe how time has flown as he looks more and more like a little boy everyday, and less and less like a baby. He certainly has quite a little (or big!) personality developing and has certainly inherited traits from the both of us already. While not naming names, he sometimes throws a fit when he doesn't get what he wants, he gets very testy when he's hungry and he has amazing determination...he's also laid back, loves to throw the ball around, smiles and waves at everyone and is amazingly happy and content - almost to a fault.
The weekend certainly brought a whole host of emotions for us - mostly happy and excited feelings - which was great - but also a few sad thoughts. His birthday, after all, was 6 months to the day from when we received his diagnosis and it's hard to think about the things he should perhaps be doing at this age, but is not. While he continues to make progress, he still doesn't use his right arm much given the choice. He doesn't pull to standing nor does he seem close to trying to walk. He also doesn't seem to possess a spoken word that he actually knows its meaning. These are the things that Susan and I constantly worry about and why sometimes we have bad days. When people politely and honestly ask how he is doing, we always try to stress the positive and highlight how well he's doing. But, at the same time, we worry about these things - things that aren't going so well - and we don't bring them up. It can be hard and, I think, it's largely due to the fact that these things scare us and we don't like to think about them too much ourselves, let alone burden others.
Anyways - he is babbling all of the time these days...different sounds and "words" coming out of his mouth everyday. He has this really cute little wave he does - just moves his hand, kind of like a politician or the Pope does when riding through a large crowd. And, the most exciting new development - he has started crawling! Just within the past couple weeks - he has started this funny army crawl! This is kind of what we expected he would start out doing - if he crawled at all...and that was certainly an "if". We are really excited as, if his crawl evolves to a more traditional one, it will do wonders for strengthening his shoulder and arm. However, even this army crawl will help - take a look at the video we shot last weekend below. Even just a week later he is doing a much better job of keeping his right arm in front of him...we are proud parents indeed!
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