1.1 or, The Skinny

Dear Miriam,

You are making strides these days.  You are walking more, although you're still faster at crawling.  I often see you stand up and start walking toward something that you want, and then sit back down and crawl the rest of the way.  I don't know if you just want to go faster, or if you get frustrated at the amount of concentration it takes to walk instead.

We had your one year check up, at which they told us you have still not gained any weight.  You got a little bit taller, but not any fatter.  So we're trying to feed you lots of carbohydrates and healthy fats.  You love eating crackers, cheese, bagels with cream cheese, and pasta.  You still love fruit; we've been eating lots of peaches and I've been making you avocado purees.  You still only have two teeth, but you certainly manage to eat a lot.  I don't know where you're putting it if you're not gaining weight.  Yet another mystery about you.

You spent a week in Madison with the Grand Lams, getting their house ready to sell.  Grandma called me pretty often to tell me what you were up to, which was nice.  You did some walking on the porch, and got to play with lots of their friends while they cleaned and packed.  The first night there, you didn't sleep very well, and the first night home, you didn't sleep very well.  But you're back to settling down pretty well, so that's nice.

The weather finally got nice enough to be outside, and then it got cold and rainy again.  But for a whole weekend, we got to play in the front yard.  You are already trying to climb up the slide on the climbing cube, which reaffirms my thought that whatever house we end up renting needs to be close to a park or a playground.  You are always curious, and want to explore things, and we will definitely want a space where we can run around.  If it's going to be an eternal summer, we might as well take advantage of it.

The couple days of warm weather also meant that I discovered that the box in which I thought I had summer clothes for you actually contained fall clothes for you.  So I had to hunt down some shorts and t-shirts over a couple of lunch hours.  I have this vision of opening some cardboard box a year from now and finding the clothes that I thought I had for this summer.  Oops.


The biggest thing that happened this month is that Dad moved to LA.  I know you probably won't remember this time when he's gone, but it's very different for us.  I miss him a lot, of course, but he really misses us.  And you're changing so much every day--we don't know what you'll be like when we're all together again.  Will you be saying words already?  Will you look different?  And will you have to get to know him again?  I really hope this transition goes quickly, and that we're together as a family again soon.

Love,
Mom

PS: I would post some pictures here, but Dad took the camera with him.  Oops.