Drop and Roll Dinosaur

Well, Timothy took interest in the drop and roll dinosaur today! He creeped over to it and was playing with it...daddy got a video but it's VERY shaky (our first video).

Here's the link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKbhQuZUfII

Close-Up

Today, Timothy creeped ~230 feet, but we haven't got the total number yet. He had a really good time!!

He pulled up on the ottoman when he was creeping with daddy *sigh* and he kept partial-standing and looking between his legs. He just about did a forward roll! I tried to get a picture of it, but I couldn't.

When I started taking pictures, Timothy creeped up to the camera to investigate what I was doing!

HALF A YEAR!!

Well, today Timothy is six months old!! We just can't believe it! It's special for him (his half-birthday lol) but it's special for us, too...we've kept a child, a tiny human being, alive for 6 months! Way to go us!!

We told Timothy that we'd celebrate his birthday today with lots of fun...well, apparently he got a little over-excited about it, because he work up at 2 in the morning and stayed awake until 5! Finally at five we pulled the swing into the bedroom and he fell back asleep until 6:30, then he was up for good. What are you thinking, kiddo?

As we layed in bed like zombies this morning with Timothy between us, Timothy touched daddy's eye and daddy said "That's daddy's eye." Then, Timothy touched mommy's eye and I said "That's mommy's eye." Then, he touched daddy's cheek and then my cheek, and daddy's nose and then my nose. He had some look of wonder in his eyes, as if he figured something out. We're not sure what it was, but we were really impressed!

Timothy and daddy have been creeping together this morning...they've been chasing balls and following mommy and having all kinds of fun! Timothy's really enjoying having his daddy home!!

Update this evening with six month pictures!

Program

Here's an update of where we are on Timothy's program:

Reading: Timothy LOVES his word cards, which is new for us. In the beginning, he didn't take much interest in the words. Now, he smiles when we show them! He has some "favorite" words that make him laugh out loud when we show them...don't ask me why. They are "expect", "jump", and "kick". We've probably shown 150-200 words so far. Timothy LOVES books...they're the first thing he crawls to when he's on the floor. And, when he watches Your Baby Can read, he smiles every time they show a word!

Math: Timothy has completed week 1 of division with 1 more week to go. He watches the equations with great interest, but we're not sure if he's "getting it". After division, we'll start three part equations (2 + 4 - 1).

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Encyclopedic Knowledge: Timothy's still working on fruits and sea creatures. He likes the sea creatures best of all! After the fruits, we're going to work on Presidents before we do vegetables...I'm tired of showing foods.

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Physical: Timothy's creeping is going WONDERFULLY! Yesterday, we got home in the afternoon and he creeped 160 feet in a matter of 2 hours!! Before that, the most he had done in an entire day was 108 feet!! We're steadily increasing the total feet per day and we couldn't be happier! (On a side note, daddy thinks that the increase in creeping is due to the CS therapy - I think that's certainly a possibility). Timothy can hang really well - at least 20 seconds each time! And he REALLY loves it! Soon, daddy will have to hang the bar so that Timothy can hang from it. He's heavy!! We've been worried about fine motor because Timothy can't really do much fine motor, but yesterday Timothy learned to undo the strap on his diaper. That's fine motor, but not really the fine motor we want. *sigh* Duct tape?

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Swimming: When Timothy was sick, we stopped submerging him but we still let him swim every day. This morning, I submerged him and I was afraid he would have forgotten all we learned, but he hasn't. He did VERY well!

So, obviously, I have very little time to spare!! Gotta go!

Craniosacral Evaluation

We were very impressed with Timothy's craniosacral evaluation today.

Overall, Timothy is doing WONDERFUL! The doctor asked if he was starting to roll over yet and was very shocked that he was already crawling! He said, developmentally, Timothy is doing extremely well!

Timothy makes excellent eye contact and responds well to noise. He's starting to separate his identity from mommy already. His physical development is great.

He does have some problems, though. The entire time that we were there, Timothy arched his back and strained his neck. He does this a lot and we try to get him to relax, but we didn't think much of it. My dad calls it "raring back". Well, it's not normal, and the extent that Timothy's doing it worries the CST a bit. Some arching the back is normal, but the hyperextending the back and neck as much as Timothy does is NOT normal.

During the evaluation, Timothy became extremely upset whenever the doctor touched below or slightly behind his ear. The CST could not feel any movement of the cranial fluids in this area, but ever other bone in the skull felt just fine. He said this area was extremely tense, and we could tell by how uncomfortable Timothy was (he cried every time the CST even came close to touching it). This area of the skull is the temporal bone. You can read about whta the temporal bone does here: http://www.csuchico.edu/anth/Module/temporal.html.

The temporal area controls language (the tongue and autitory processing and output) and vestibular/balance. We knew he had a problem with language, and we try really hard to give him a good vestibular program (spinning him, swinging upside down, tossing in the hair, etc.) but there are some minor problems there.

*Note - the CST was quick to tell us that these are not very serious problems. We could not do anything and he'd adapt just fine. The analogy he drew is that a person can be born with only 8 fingers and do just fine all through life, but it's better to have all your fingers.

Basically, the CST recommended 3-4 sessions to address this issue. He said that it's more than likely caused by the C-section birth. A vaginal birth is much better on the baby because it compresses all the cranial bones. The CST hopes to loosen the temporal area of the skull with treatment.

The CST worked on his stomach (for reflux) and back (for the arching) a great deal. Timothy was upset and hyper at the beginning of the session, but at the end he was just butter in the CST's hands - he melted and was so relaxed. We carried him out of there asleep!!

Our "homework" is to touch that area of the ear (ever so lightly) so that he's used to the touch. Right now he hates it!!

And the CST was VERY impressed with DADDY!! We already knew that David was a great daddy, but it was nice to see someone else realize it, too. He said David was the first daddy he had ever seen go to an appointment with a child, and was very impressed with David's knowledge of Timothy's development and health.

I'm so proud of my boys!!!!

Bass Pro Shop

Yesterday, we went to see Mama and Papa. Timothy had lots of fun creeping around! We took him to Bass Pro Shop to see the fish and he REALLY enjoyed it! At the end of the day, he was SO tired!!!
Obviously, the large stuffed bear wasn't too interesting to him. Of course, nothing is as interesting as MOMMY!

Coming soon...our discussion of our Craniosacral therapy appointment we had today. Don't drop dead of anticipation, please!!

Circle Time

First, I have an exciting announcement to make -

Timothy creeped 83.5 feet yesterday!! We are so proud of him! He's really moving now!

This morning, he's been up 2 hours and in that 2 hours, he swam, ate, read a book, AND creeped more than 30 feet! HUGE creeping day yesterday, and we're looking good for today, too!

We've had 2 days of circle time now, and it's going GREAT!! First, Daddy and I sit down and sing "Come to the cirlce, the circle, the circle. Come to the circle, the circle of fun!!" until Timothy creeps there. (Pic of Timothy creeping to the circle below).

Then, we sing the months of the year song while we show the cards for months, and the days of the week song with the cards, and the weather song and we go outside and check the weather. We have story time (where we read a picture book) and then we play an active game (the last two days we played follow the leader - PIC of daddy being the leader below). So far, Timothy doesn't really follow us as we go around the house, but he does watch us with great interest. And then we have music time and w'ere done!!

Well, yesterday when we did the months of the year, daddy said "This month is January!" and then I held up two word cards - January and October. I said "Timothy, which is January?" so that we could put it on the board. Well, he leaned forward and grabbed the right word out of my hands! We were very impressed!! But, he wouldn't have anything to do with the days of the week cards or the weather cards... (PIC of where we put our word cards below).

I have more great news - Timothy has an appointment with a Craniosacral Therapist this Friday morning. We're very excited - this is a GREAT CST. He worked with the little conjoined Egyptian twins, so we knows he's good! He'll do a full evaluation and tell us if there's anything at all wrong!

Dallas World Aquarium

Today, we took Timothy to the Dallas World Aquarium. He LOVED anything that was moving - his favorites seemed to be the sea turtles, manatees, and a rabbit that was showing off for him. He also loved all the fish.

He had SUCH a good time...we all did!

And we went to the bookstore and got lots of fun books for circle time, that we're going to start next week!

I have such a great family...I couldn't ask for more!!

How Do you Do It?

I got an anonymous email asking me how I fit everything into one day. Well, I can give you an outline schedule, but it's hard for me to show our TRUE schedule. I'll put Timothy on the floor and he'll play for 3 minutes, then I'll pick him up and we'll read a book, then it's back to the floor for another 10 minutes, then he cries and we'll go set his baby food out, then I put him back on the floor....

Here's an outline of our schedule, though.

7 - Wake up

Creep and watch a video

Set of Bit of Intelligence (Encyclopedic Knowledge) Cards and Reading Words, grasp and hang

8 - Eat Bottle and Babyfood

Infant Swimming

Massage

Cards and grasp and hang

Creeping

9 - Quiet time...Read a "Big" Book together (a chapter book)

Morning Nap (Timothy listens to a book on tape during this time)

11 - More Creeping Together

Cards

12 - Eat Again - Bottle and Babyfood

Creeping and Cards

1-3 Floor Time, Jumperoo, Cards, Video (Baby or Little Einstein, Your Baby Can Read), Reading (today we read "Goody Two Shoes" - one of the books we'll be reading in a Children's Lit class I'm taking).

3-4 Music Time (Right now we're listening to jazz...big band) (he'll sometimes nap during this time while I play the music)

4 - Eat Bottle and Babyfood

4-6 Read Together (on the floor) - little board books

Cards, grasp and hang

Creeping Time

Video

Fussy Time (I can pretty much count on fussy time from 4-6, while I try to make dinner)

6 - Swim Time again (in the hot tub or bathtub with daddy)

Infant massage

Finger Foods at the table while mommy and daddy eat

7 - Vestibular Time with Daddy

8 - Bottle

In bed by 8:30.

In the beginning, I saw everything the program called for and didn't know how I would do it all. However, now Doman has become such a part of our life that it's almost easy. After cards, we grasp. We try to fit vestibular in whenever we're holding him. We put him on the floor all the time. We show equations 3times/day.

When daddy comes home, Timothy's normally finished with all of his cards and usually only needs to grasp and hang one more time or something similar, so we've become pretty good and cramming it all in a day.

It gives us something to do, anyway.

On another note, I was amazed today!! We were watching the video "Your Baby Can Read" and Timothy was on the floor. They showed the word "car seat" and he got this glint in his eyes, and he took off to the other side of the room. I went to see what he was doing, and he was grabbing our laminated "car seat" word card that was on the floor over there (we have some laminated words around the room that he can "play" with). Now, I know this could easily be looked at as coincidence, but I'm going to think that it isn't.

Sweet Potato

Well, I put some pants on him this morning, and he hated them. They took about 5 minutes to get on and they were off within 3 minutes. He really has problems creeping in pants...and he still got up to do a bear crawl.

Yesterday, we found out what happens when you combine sweet potato + sneeze. He has been SO hungry for babyfood lately! Yesterday, I had to fix him two servings at every meal because he still wanted more after the first!! So, after the sweet potato we had avocado, and he grabbed the spoon out of my hand to feed himself. It did not turn out well!!

This morning, Timothy found his penis while I was doing infant massage. I thought about it, but I decided not to say anything. If anyone has a right to touch that part, I suppose it's Timothy.

Right now, he's in the swing screaming "momma, momma, momma"! The last couple of days, I've started "alone time." If he's crying in my arms, I'm going to put him down. If he's going to cry whether I hold him or not, I might as well do something else. It stresses me out to hold a crying baby. So, this morning he was fighting his nap so I gave him some "alone time" in the swing. He's still screaming, though. I go back in after 15 minutes and try to soothe him again. He has REALLY started fighting naps. I tried rocking him and reading and he just screamed.

Bear Crawl

Timothy's feeling better today - he still has the cold, but he slept a great deal this afternoon and he's been WANTING to spend a lot of time on the floor. He actually cried wanting to be put down, which was a nice surprise for me (on the first day of the semester).

But, here's what worries me - Timothy's been doing a bear crawl lately. Instead of crawling on his knees, he's been keeping his legs straight. I couldn't get a really good illustrative picture of it, but I got these two as an example. I KNOW this isn't good for the midbrain. *sigh*

He also tried to pull up today, and he would have had I not picked him up and said "It's not time to stand up yet, silly!!" and put him back down on his knees with a toy.

Sheesh, time flies. I can't believe we're at this stage already!!

Plus, we started giving him little finger foods. He doesn't really have the fine motor yet to eat them, but he sure tries!!

The first picture is him eating a banana puff, the second is zwieback toast.

Visit to the Doctor

He's fine. We just need to keep giving him the medicine and let him get plenty of rest and fluids and he'll get over this!

He's sick

He's SO sick. Just LOOK how sick he is!!

Viral Upper Respiratory Illness

Well, we just got back from the ER. We were shocked when we got a mediocre nurse (best we've had at that hospital) and a wonderful doctor!! He was EXCELLENT!!

They did an RSV culture and it was NEGATIVE!! Horray! Timothy has a viral Upper Respiratory Illness. They called our family doctor and she said there's nothing we could have done to prevent it - it's everywhere right now and one of us probably caught it when we were out and have the immunities for it...Timothy doesn't.

Wow, I wish I could have breastfed.

Anyway, we have a prescription decongestant so that it doesn't go into his lungs and if it isn't better in 3 days or if it gets worse we're going to see about some breathing treatments.

But, wouldn't you know, the whole time in the ER he was in SUCH a great mood. Smiling at everyone he saw, cooing, and when the doctor listened to his heart he giggled so much the doctor couldn't even hear!! The kid even laughed when they took his blood in his heel!!! I have NO idea what got in to him today, but I wish he was in that mood everyday!!!!

The nurses and doctors kept commenting about what a great happy baby he was....if they only knew.

Pray for Us

Timothy's "cold" is getting much worse, and from what we've read he might have RSV. We're getting baths right now and then we're going to the ER.

He's having problems breathing he keeps choking on all the mucous. I hope his doctor will come up to the ER.

Weather Update

Well, we're all doing fine here. We still have power, which is a nice suprise...our power goes out ALL the time. We're getting ready to go the store to buy some firewood just in case.

Our usually beautiful lake is coming awfully close to our back fence. I sure hope it doesn't keep raining. That's not good.

It's rather ironic, but we started "Underwater animals" this morning for his Bit cards. He really loved them. I hope the "underwater animals" aren't in our house later today if it keeps raining!!!

Timothy's ready for this weather! Daddy got him dressed all nice and warm!!!

And - Timothy's already creeped almost 30 feet today. Daddy put him down in the living room this morning and he took off 9.5 feet to the corner to pull on the tv cord...we're going to have to SERIOUSLY babyproof everything. EVERYTHING!

Funny, funny, funny!!!!!!

Have you ever laughed so hard that you ran out of breath? That happened to me today! I literally almost peed my pants. I can HONESTLY say this was the funniest thing that I've EVER experienced!

When I'm going to check my email quickly, I normally let Timothy creep around on the bed and tear up losing lottery tickets and pull papers off a notepad or whatever. Today, I checked my email and picked Timothy up, carrying him on my hip like usual.

I decided that I needed to update the blog, so I put new batteries in the camera and was going to take a closeup while I held him on my hip. I took the picture and then looked at it to see if I even got him. Here's what I saw:

I had NO idea that he had grabbed the marker off the bed, let alone that he could get the cap off and would put the thing in his mouth!! Thank goodness this wasn't a permanent marker!! I laughed my head off and took the marker away, saying "Uh oh!!". It was SO funny.

An After-Shot - he's laughing because I'm laughing.

But listen, it gets funnier. I call David to tell him what happened, and I'm telling him the story and then all of a sudden Timothy says "Uh oh!". I kid you not!! I'm laughing so hard I'm crying, I can't even speak, and David's on the other end of the phone "Did he just say Uh oh? Was that Timothy?? Did HE say that? He said uh oh!" And I can't even answer him I'm laughing so hard!!

Now, tell me that's not one of the funniest things you've ever heard. Colored on his face with a orange crayola marker and then says "Uh oh" when I'm telling daddy about it.

Proving It.

I know you all are still sceptics out there, but babies REALLY can learn and read - I have no doubt. They just can't PROVE it at this age (nor would we really want them to...they're not a sideshow act). I've heard the question "How can he learn math? He doesn't even talk yet!" a hundred times, but you don't have to be able to talk to know math! Timothy knows lots of things, but he really doesn't have the ability to show us that he knows them. Doman feels very strongly that you shouldn't test a child. It's disrespectful to make them prove they know it over and over again, and it sends the message "I don't believe you can really do it", which isn't fun at all. So, I'm just going to have faith that everything we're doing is getting through.

With that being said, I don't think that Timothy has "grasped" multiplication yet. When we did subtraction and addition, I could see it in his eyes - he understood. However, he has a very uncertain look on his face when we do multiplication. He's amused, but he doesn't seem to understand. Of course, we've only showed him about 5 days worth of equations, so maybe he needs to see more of the facts in order to grasp the rules. He still has another week of equations, and there is still plenty of time for him to figure it out!

But here are two YouTube videos that show a baby "providing it" with reading:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOUxUtEc2DQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaJ4OvDCqkI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISS0qSLPeT0

Most likely, you won't see anything like that with Timothy because A) Like I said before, he's not a sideshow act B) our camcorder is not internet ready and C) even with proof, people still won't believe it. Babies reading, babies doing multiplication, babies swimming is against everything people believe and everything they want to believe, and they'll find a way to talk themselves out of the truth (she's just memorized the words, they dubbed the voice in, etc).

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On another note, we started finger foods with Timothy yesterday to help him work on his fine motor skills. He wasn't able to pick them up, but they did stick to his elbow!! We also tried juice in a cup (not a sippy) since we're still having independence problems, and he proceeded to pour sticky juice all over his head.

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Somebody PLEASE tell me it gets easier!!!

No Time to Talk

We're having a busy day, so I'll just share some pictures from days past. These are the "runner up" pictures that I didn't post on previous days.

Cardinal Rules

These are a portion of the 89 Cardinal Facts for Making Any Baby into a Superb Human Being by Glenn Doman

1. The world has looked at the brain growth and development as if it were a predestined and unchangeable fact, instead, brain growth and development is a dynamic and ever-changing process.


2. This is a process that can be stopped. This is a process that can be slowed, but most significantly, this is a process that can be speeded.


3. All that we do to speed the process is to give kids visual, auditory, and tactile information with increased frequency, intensity, and duration in recognition of the orderly way in which the human brain grows.


4. It is easier to teach a one-year-old to read than it is to teach a seven-year-old.


5. The first six years of life are the genesis of genius.


6. The brain grows by use.


7. All humans are born with a greater potential for genius that Leonardo daVinci ever used.


8. The brain is the only container that the more you put into it, the more it will hold.


9. You can teach your baby anything that you can present in an honest and factual way.


10. Mother brought us form the caves to the Age of Reason. Professionals brought us from Age of Reason to the Atomic Age. Mothers are the best teachers (sorry daddy).


11. Geniuses are made, not born.

There's one I'm really not so sure about, though.

1. Tiny babies would rather learn than play.
2. Timothy seems to like to eat his word cards, and daddy seems to like to let him do it!!

Daddy dressed me today!!

I'm going to get a button to pin on Timothy that says "Daddy dressed me today!!"

And perhaps another one that says "Daddy fed me today!!"

I love my husband!!

He is one of the most patient individuals I know. He is faithful and devoted, and always so enthusiastic about every new skill that Timothy develops! He shares my enthusiasm about teaching our son, he makes Bits of Intelligence cards, and he's even read the entire "How Smart is Your Baby" book. I've seen him panic when a video started teaching the ABCs and run to turn it off. He's a heck of a guy! Now that's a great father!!

Sippy Cup

First of all, I have some good news - Timothy broke his creeping record yesterday with a 40 ft. total creeping distance!!! Great job, Timothy!!!

He's already impressed us this morning...when daddy put him down he went 9.5 feet!

We tried the sippy cup again yesterday when Timothy was fighting to hold the bottle himself (and couldn't). He can hold the sippy cup just fine and he chews on the spout, but very rarely does he actually tip the cup to get some milk!! I'm sure that will come with time, though.

Sale Papers and Catalogs

Timothy likes them. Timothy likes to eat them!!

At dinner last night, Timothy joined us at the table. He happily "ate" catalog pages until he threw them on the floor, then he'd cry and we'd hand him another page that he could play with. This "game" lasted quite awhile!!!

Timothy ate BUTTERNUT SQUASH yesterday for the first time!! He didn't seem to like it yesterday, but today for "lunch" (at ten thirty in the morning....we woke up at 6 today *sigh*) he ate it all. So, out of apple, banana, avocado, and butternut squash the avocado and squash seem to be his favorite.

Right now, I'm steaming sweet potato.

Aquarium Trip

Today, we took Timothy to the Dallas Aquarium at Fair Park!!!

He seemed to have a GREAT time!! I feel bad for him, because he's never really been anywhere - not even to the grocery store but once! He had a great time looking at all the fish...he followed them with his eyes...but he also had a great time looking at the people, especially the small children. Besides our neighbors 2 kids, Timothy's never been around little kids before, so he was most amused by them!

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Since he just got his RSV shot yesterday, I thought it would be safe to take him out. As we get out of RSV/Flu season and into Spring, I hope that daddy and I are able to take him more places - the Science Place, zoo, children's museum, park, and even the grocery store...it's all new to him!!

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Even with our outing, Timothy's had about 12 creeping sessions today and has creeped 20+ feet, not bad for a day when we went out!!!!

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But, the bad news - last night we had to reintroduce the pacifier. He woke up screaming at midnight and the pacifier was an easy way out. He hasn't been relying on it today, though, so I don't think we completely caved in!

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Tomorrow Timothy starts MULTIPLICATION and today he finished dot cards 1-100!!! Next, we'll introduce the # 0, do two weeks of multiplication, two weeks of division, and then start 3-part equations.

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Our words right now are from three sets - possessive words (mine, yours, ours), courtesy words (thank you, please, ma'am) and body parts (eye, shoulder, belly button, etc).

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Our Bits of Intelligence cards are still fruit (what is a Rambutan? I do not know...) and Leonardo da Vinci paintings.

Highchair

As I've said before, feeding Timothy has become MOST difficult. So we went to Babies R Us yesterday and bought a highchair - one that attaches to a regular kitchen chair and will even later become a booster seat.

Well, I must say, it's working out great. It was a great $30 spent!! We tilted Timothy back some so he wouldn't want to sit up so much, and he didn't even fight us with his hands!! It worked great for bottle feeding and for banana this morning!!!! I'm so glad because I was getting SO frustrated!

Timothy's had 5 creeping opportunities this morning, so I'm very glad of that!! We're trying to give him plenty of short sessions throughout the day so that he can creep but not feel like he's spending all day on the floor!!

The Bully

I'd like to raise my son to be many things - compassionate, caring, open-minded, free-thinking, merciful....but I've never hoped that he would become a bully.

Alas, though, Timothy is a bully - a bird bully!! We put up a finch feeder right before Christmas, and I think every finch for 100 miles has found it!! We have 30-50 finch that hang out in our backyard and eat the food out of the feeder and off the ground. I haven't walked by and seen the feeder without a bird on it EVER!

Well, Timothy likes to be put on the floor in the living room so he can look outside our large sliding glass door. He sees all of the birds at the feeder, and then he'll squeal very loud and they'll all fly away. Then, he'll cackle like crazy. They'll wait a few seconds until they think everything is safe, and then he'll scare them away again and laugh like a madman!! He'll repeat this for 15 minutes!!

In a way, I think it's really cute and it's GREAT because I can empty the dishwasher and clean up the kitchen during this time. But I have to comfort myself - at least he's not flushing thier heads in the toilet or taking their lunch money...yet.

I think our total creeping distance today was 17 feet - really great for as little as he was one the floor!! We focused a great deal on swimming today since we've been neglecting it as of late due to the bad weather. Plus, it's really relaxing - for all of us. We found that if we just swim through fussy time, there ISN'T a fussy time!! That's great!!!

Timothy did EXCELLENT swimming today - we submerged him 9 times and ever time he closed his eyes and held his breath. Daddy says "It's time to swim to mommy" and he dunks Timothy under the water for the length of the hot tub and I grab him when he gets to my side. Lately, we've started letting go underwater for a few seconds so that he can swim on his own - he does really great!! It's like he knows exactly what he's supposed to do...he kicks his feet and paddles his hands and gets where he needs to be!! We'll start letting go of him for longer and longer periods until he can swim 3 feet underwater on his own. He's doing great, though - we've just been doing it with him for about 2 months!!!

Blockbuster sent us the video "Baby da Vinci" today and he really enjoyed it. So, since we need to start a new category of Bits of Intelligence tomorrow, we'll go ahead and start Da Vinci paintings. I think he'll like them - he likes art!!

We're ready for a new day!!

Timothy's Day So Far

Timothy has been fussy most of the day and has not creeped much but we had a great time swimming. He held his breath under the water 9 times. Soon he will be swimming like a fish. We are so proud of him even if he does not creep 45 feet today. Everyday I am home with him I am more proud of my wife for what she does during the day.