It's official...

It's official.....he is walking!! Drew took his first steps last Thursday (Sept. 18th). He took a couple in the morning while I was sorting laundry. He would walk in between the baskets. Then after dinner he took about 8 steps walking between things. And by bedtime he was walking across our bedroom taking about 20 steps.

I never really got a good snapshot of the steps; but here are the best ones.

(The above picture isn't really that good....but we both that it was interesting because we thought Drew looked a bit like Carter/Colby in it....whereas most of the time Jared is going on and on about how he looks like me or just like my dad. I guess there is some Frost in there somewhere babe!!)
But, here are a couple of videos that turned out pretty good.....

He seems so little walking around! But I guess that is just because there is a big difference between walking at 10 months and 3 weeks versus walking at 19 months (that is when Isaac walked).

Why my 3 1/2 year old still naps!

Lots of people act surprised when I tell them that Isaac still takes afternoon naps; so I thought today's find would help explain why...........

I left Isaac eating some lunch and watching Barney while I quickly went upstairs to feed Drew and put him down for a nap. Upon my return about 10 minutes later this is what I found!!

Growing Up....No. 2

August was also a big month for Drew. On the 25th he turned 10 months old (wow...already)!! We spent the whole month of July trying to entice him to crawl, roll, move somehow....just do anything besides sit and chew on toys all day and then we spent the whole month of August CHASING him ALL around the house as he discovered the joys of being mobile. Here is just a sampling of the many skills he has mastered this past month:

CLIMBING UP & OVER Everything. (the stairs included...we have had a few close calls when the baby gate has been left down).
CRAWLING. He started out alittle shaky the first two days and then suddenly.......

ZOOM...ZOOM....ZOOM! Now he crawls so fast I can barely put him down before he run crawls out of my sight. He especially likes to crawl really fast when chasing Isaac or playing "crawling" with Isaac (as Ike calls it.....Ike gets down and crawls around with baby Drew).

PULLING HIMSELF UP (he could do that for awhile; but since he wasn't mobile; he wouldn't do it very often). Now he pulls himself up on everything he crawls up to....chairs, couch, walls, YOU, etc.And even WALKING behind the walker......

He is getting more daring each day with his cruising and walking with the walker....just today he tried to walk from the ottoman to the couch; so maybe any day we will be posting that he is walking.

Speaking of GROWING; his hair is really getting long. We keep thinking about cutting it since now it often hangs over the top of his ears; but then Jared can't give Drew his favorite hairdo....the soccer rocker! (Besides, we also wonder if it helps hide his head shape).


Also in the past month 3 more teeth popped through....giving him 7 teeth already. Which may explain why he is such a "chewy" kid. His chewiness has added two new nicknames to his repertoire: Chewbacca and Beaver. The "beav" isn't really coming from his relation to uncle Beavis per se but from the pictures below:

HMMM....Hmmmm....hmmmm....what could be causing all those marks on Drew's crib?? Especially all those marks on the rail closest to the door?
Ah HA! Mom caught the culprit in the act one day when she came to get Drew from his morning nap. Over about a week; more and more marks were showing up on his crib. I was pretty sure it was Drew chewing on it and above is a picture of him right after being caught.

So, what did mom and dad do.....lower his crib ALL the way down. Hoping to prevent more crib chewing!!
OH! Looks like it worked.......see Drew can barely even look over the rail by the door! Yeah!

But alas, he just moved over to the other rail.............Nice try Mom and Dad!! Ha, Ha!!
Anyone know the long-term effects of eating varnish??????