The First Word

Oh gosh, it's only been a month and I don't know where to begin the updating. This may seem a tad scrambled but that's because my thoughts are in a jumble trying to keep everything straight.

My period came on Friday June 16. It was day 50; actually I had bought 2 tests that morning and when I went into the bathroom to take one there was my little friend, grinning at me. One more disappointing month. We'll really have to concentrate on getting pregnant soon or the next baby will be a summer baby... great for the kid but miserable for me!

Shaun started crawling almost 3 weeks ago on Thursday June 6. It took him about a week to get really good but now there's no stopping him. The cats sure learned quick that the safest place for them is out of his path. Kitty will sit on the stairs and tease Shaun, sitting just out of his reach. Ahh, big sisters!

We went camping at Guelph Lake Conservation Area from Tuesday to Friday last week. Lisa, Matthew and Joseph were with us for the first night and half of the next day. It was really nice to be with them on our own - no other family or kids. This Friday we're leaving again to go camping with Mum and Dad. It's going to be an amazing time!

We bought a van finally. YAY!! Wayne and Leah's neighbour, Lorraine, smashed her van and bought our car for $6300. And 2 Thursdays ago on June 15 we drove up to Toronto and got the van. It's amazing and I have no idea how we would have packed for camping without it. It's going to make life so much easier albeit mroe expensive. It's a Dodge Grand Caravanm Sport and I'm in love with it.

Shaun's eating everything that we are now... and loving it. And it's wierd stuff that he likes too: olives, feta cheese, dad even gave him red wine and Shaun gobbled it up! What a strange little man.

We need to play with Shaun's schedule again. He's dropped another nursing recently so now he's down to only 2 nursings a day. And he only needs his third nap one out of around every 3 days. I think he'll be ready for homo milk soon. I'm thinking around 11 months or so. But he sometimes still nurses mid-afternoon. I know it's probably not good to allow him to nurse at that time only when he wants but I love the time we have together. I wasn't ready for him to drop to 2 nursings so I figure, if he wants a 3rd sometimes, no problem.

Hmmm, what else has been going on. Oh, I'm convinced Shaun's been saying a couple of words. When he's eating and sees a banana or if I'm asking him about bananas he's say "na-na" every time. It's so consistent I don't think it's coincidence. And we think he says Ted too. When naptime arrives I'll ask him "where's Ted" and not only will he look around for Ted, but once Shaun finds him he'll say "Det, Det" or just "T, T, T". And again, he only says that when we're talking about Ted or if he sees Ted. It's pretty amazing.

And something else, Shaun dances!! When music is on he'll rock back and forth and smile and laugh. It's great because I dance with him all the time and he obviously learned from it.