#2

As in tooth #2, not poop. :)

It's true, at 11 months old Wyatt is finally getting his second tooth. In this department he is a little behind. Everyone was saying that since #1 came so late the others would be right behind and would come in quick. Not so much.

It has taken a full week for that sucker to finally pop through. Last week I started to notice a little bump and then a little bit of white poking through, but couldn't feel anything when I ran my finger along his gums.

Then today, I saw a corner! Overnight it seems this little tooth has decided to show up full force.

Now the fact that it took so long for this second tooth to show up is not the entire reason for this post...the bigger reason is the location of this particular tooth.

Again, everybody says teeth come in twos. Obviously not with my kid. Everybody says the bottom TWO will be the first to show up. Not with my kid. Instead his bottom left tooth came in first and now his TOP LEFT tooth is coming in.

My child is going to look like a hillbilly.

And just in time for his one year pictures.

Can you see me shaking my head?

And teeth are totally changing how his smile looks! I like his toothless old man smile, it's cute! With teeth, he's really starting to look like a little boy. The big boy clothes, almost walking, and full head of hair doesn't help either. I do miss the teeny baby days, but man is he fun as a toddler!

Have I mentioned he gives the best hugs? No, well I'm just going to have a write another post on another day all about that.

New Stuff

Ok, I know I haven't been posting enough, but really after work and time with Wy I feel like I don't have 2 seconds for myself lately!

But there have been some big and exciting developments lately!!

One, I ordered the invites for Wy's 1st birthday party. It's so crazy to me that my baby is turning one! this year went by so fast. I can't wait though to have a party, watch him eat cake, and help me open gifts. We are having a little party with friends and close family at my dad's house. Simple BBQ food and a few little games and projects for the other older kiddos.

Two, Wyatt is close to walking!! AH! He has been pulling himself up on furniture and scooting around holding on to things for a couple months now. But this week he has been making big strides towards walking on his own. The other night I was sitting on the floor while he was playing like I usually do. While sitting responding to a text I had received I realized he was standing next to me. Not unusual since he is always using me to pull himself up when I am sitting on the floor. Then I realized I hadn't felt his hand on my shoulder for support in getting from the floor to his feet. And then I realized he wasn't holding on to me at all! He was standing next to me with no help happily watching me type a text message. Until I freaked out and accidentally bumped him enough to knock him over. He did it though! All on his own he stood up and was standing next to me with no help.

Wy also has discovered that he can push his truck/walker across the room. It's so much fun to watch him almost run across the living room to bang his truck against the wall...seems like all the noise is the best motivation to bother walking at all. :) So it seems like any day now he's just going to walk off without thinking about what he's doing. Ugh, he's such a big boy!

He does all kinds of goofy stuff now, he dances (bobs more like), he pretends to talk on the phone, he sings himself to sleep...

By the way, something very cute: listening to Wy sings himself back to sleep in the middle of the night; something not cute at all: listening to Wy scream bloody murder in the middle of the night because he doesn't want to drink milk he wants to drink formula. Very annoying.

He is such a joy to me though, even when he's making me crazy. I got a ton of pictures printed from shutterfly recently and brought a handful of them to work so I can have him all over my cube. It makes me happy to see his smiling little face!

Lots to look forward to in the coming months; first steps, first words, first birthday party, first visit with his grandparents from Florida (more on that later)...so much is going on all the time.

Honestly the only thing I am sad about or regret is that I am not able to be home with him full time while he is going through all this. I always thought I would be able to be a stay at home mom for the first couple years with each of my kids. The best I can do at this point is enjoy every second I have with him and hope that someday I get to watch more of the process with my future kids!

TaDa!

Today I hung a shelf in the bathroom and put some vinyl wall art up in my room...

Yes, it's absolutely taking forever for me to get things up and in order here. We have lived in this apartment since March and I'm still working on getting the place set up. It's been really hard to get motivated to tackle these projects after working all week and having Wyatt to chase after any time I'm actually home.

But I'm hoping to be here in this apartment at least another year so I'm not worried that it's taking so long to get things looking the way I want them to. I finally got new bookshelves last month and the difference is amazing. They look so much better!! I've also been making sure to print pictures and actually frame and hang them more often so there's lots to look at on the walls now.

The biggest challenge at this point is going to be keeping Wy's toys in check and weeding through and throwing out things I don't need or want. I have a good handle on Wy's toys at the moment, while I was shopping for bookshelves at IKEA I got him a toybox to keep in the living room, makes cleaning up so easy cause i can just throw everything in the box and put the lid on...InstaClean!! Motivating myself to look through a bunch of stuff I really don't care much about is a whole other thing. I have all these boxes of stuff I haven't looked at in forever. It's such a hassle to sort through things and find places for the things I keep and haul out the junk I don't want.

I'm going to push through though, I want this to be a nice place for me and Wy. And I want to simplify my life. I don't need to be carrying all this junk around any more. It's time for a new start.