Thomas is 14 months old today! And what a busy one it has been. Matthew is still out and about doing a Mexico-Toledo line, with fine weather on the Mexico side and snowstorms and single-digit weather on the Toledo side. He sent a bunch of photos of snow that he took while walking to Borders in Toledo, and it brought back so many memories of winter in Wisconsin. Snow halfway to the knee, icicles on cars, snowplows, shoveling the sidewalk, dirty, icy, salty brown slush at the bottom of it all. It occurred to me that Thomas will probably not have the same experience as I do of snow on the ground for five to six months out of the year, so I bought him a cute book at Borders called The Snowy Day. It's about a little boy who wakes up to a big snowfall and his exploration of all the different ways that you can play with snow. Somehow I think that this book will mean a lot more to me than it will to him!
Other things that have happened this week: Thomas is walking! He's gone from staggering a couple of steps to measured, deliberate steps that take him across a small room! His eyes light up and he cackles with laughter as he walks. I've counted more than 15 steps at a time! It's amazing how quickly it all came together. He's also started feeding me Cheerios at mealtime when he's losing his appetite or his interest in food. And he can now open up my cell phone and hold it up to my ear as if it's for me. No reaction when I hold it up to his ear and pretend it's for him, though. He's also become dexterous enough to hold a bubble wand and dip it into the bubble solution and hold it up over his head so that I can blow on it. He loves to see bubbles come out of the wand and giggles happily. When I hold the wand up to his mouth, though, he either tries to bite it or he blows air out through his nose! So cute!
After three days of a very grumpy Thomas, this morning I woke up at 5:30am (his usual wake-up time these days) to hear him quietly chatting to himself: "mamama.... da... da... da... mamama.... thbttttt.... da". So unusual! He seems to have his usual happy demeanor again, and his appetite seems to be back, thank goodness. For both breakfast and dinner I had to go back to the kitchen to get more food for him because I underestimated how much he would eat by half! It seems that the moment I stop worrying about how much he's eating, I start worrying about him eating too much! His happy demeanor lasted until after his second nap, when on the way from his room to the diaper changing station in our room, something changed and it was a full-blown meltdown. What the heck happened? I only wish I knew what was the cause! I suppose there are more where that came from, as the "terrible twos" are coming!
Other things that have happened this week: Thomas is walking! He's gone from staggering a couple of steps to measured, deliberate steps that take him across a small room! His eyes light up and he cackles with laughter as he walks. I've counted more than 15 steps at a time! It's amazing how quickly it all came together. He's also started feeding me Cheerios at mealtime when he's losing his appetite or his interest in food. And he can now open up my cell phone and hold it up to my ear as if it's for me. No reaction when I hold it up to his ear and pretend it's for him, though. He's also become dexterous enough to hold a bubble wand and dip it into the bubble solution and hold it up over his head so that I can blow on it. He loves to see bubbles come out of the wand and giggles happily. When I hold the wand up to his mouth, though, he either tries to bite it or he blows air out through his nose! So cute! 
After three days of a very grumpy Thomas, this morning I woke up at 5:30am (his usual wake-up time these days) to hear him quietly chatting to himself: "mamama.... da... da... da... mamama.... thbttttt.... da". So unusual! He seems to have his usual happy demeanor again, and his appetite seems to be back, thank goodness. For both breakfast and dinner I had to go back to the kitchen to get more food for him because I underestimated how much he would eat by half! It seems that the moment I stop worrying about how much he's eating, I start worrying about him eating too much! His happy demeanor lasted until after his second nap, when on the way from his room to the diaper changing station in our room, something changed and it was a full-blown meltdown. What the heck happened? I only wish I knew what was the cause! I suppose there are more where that came from, as the "terrible twos" are coming!
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