I'm a walker

After about a week of teasing mommy and daddy, I decided tonight to finally take those first steps on my own (cue music: I'm a big boy now!).

Yessiree, I can now walk on my own 2 feet under my own power - how 'bout them apples?!?! (what does that mean? Is there something about apples I need to know about?).

Believe it or not, my first official steps were at.......the high school band room. Yup, mommy had me in there at the start of rehearsal tonight (thanks for watching me Tessa!) and it was just the right time.

Mommy has a video of it, so hopefully we'll get it posted here right soon.

UPDATE: Here's the video...

Happy Birthday Daddy!

Thanks to mommy and daddy for waking me up this evening so I could see daddy tonight for his birthday. All day long, all I said was daddy, daddy, daddy (don't tell mommy)!

But I'm not feeling so great right now, stuffy nose and all, so back to bed I go...

Western Carolina competition

This past weekend the band traveled out to Western Carolina University for big time competition. Daddy and I drove up separately from the band Friday night and we stayed at hotel by the university.

The room was pretty long and I got to crawl around back and forth until I fell asleep.

Saturday was an early day, the band's prelims performance was before 10a! I thought they did pretty well, they're really starting to play their show with a lot of excitement.

The rest of the day was a bit of blur with naps and crawling around the area behind the stands and trying to stay out of the sun. I did a pretty good job getting my clothes dirty!

The band ended up not making finals, which was too bad, maybe next time!

My own excitement came as Daddy and I were getting ready to leave to come back home. I was playing in the grass by the car when I fell into Daddy's legs. He thought I hit my forehead on his leg and picked me up to ease my pain.

But really, I hit my mouth and was bleeding. Mommy saw the blood and got worried that I busted a tooth. But I had all my teeth, so that wasn't it. Daddy got one of the band moms (thank you Ms. Roberts!) who's a pediatric nurse to take a look and it turns out that little thing that connects my upper lip to my gum got ripped a bit.

She told Mommy and Daddy that this is somewhat common and that I'll be okay in a few days - boy was that a relief!

Maybe a little too much excitement to end the day.

A good weekend

In addition to the Band Competition yesterday (see the post below this one) it was a pretty fun weekend!

Daddy put my new forward-facing car seat in Mommy's car and I'm figuring out ways to get out of the Family Room and start scooting up the stairs, that's so much fun.

If you haven't heard, I've learned to say "uh ohhhh" especially after dropping something (you can't believe how neat it is to say that, drop something and watch Mommy and Daddy continue to pick it up!!).

But even better, I'm sort of saying "Mama" and that makes Mommy so happy whenever I say it!

North Lincoln Band Competition

Mommy and Daddy took me to Saturday's band competition at North Lincoln and it was a whole lot of fun....when I was awake.

The band did okay in their prelims performance, but it was really sunny and warm, so I didn't see much of it. Many thanks to the Williamson's for keeping an eye on me while Mommy and Daddy helped out the band.

Before Finals, I got dinner and was able to crawl around on the football field for a little bit. I'm soooo close to walking on my own, but I'm just not ready for it just yet. I need for Mommy and Daddy to think I'm still attached to them because once I start walking, I'm all over the place!

For Finals, I got to hang out with the Wright's and after the sun went down and things cooled down, I slept most of the evening. But wow, did the East Lincoln band pull out a show for Finals!

They were electric and practically swept all the awards - they got the biggest trophy of the night, it was waaaayyyy taller than me!

Back in the afternoon, Mommy had me over by the equipment truck and the pictures below show you what I was able to get into!

All I have to do is dream

Boy have I been getting lots of sleep lately or what? Seems like for the past week or more, mommy brings me home from Chesterbrook, I eat some dinner and I fall asleep. Next thing I know, it's morning already!

Where does the time go?

Dreams I guess. I think I've been having some teeth dreams, maybe. Some more bottom teeth may be getting ready to poke through, but it's hard to tell.

Mostly though I think I'm dreaming about music, it seems everywhere I turn there's some music being played or something, not that I mind of course, I love to wiggle dance to really good music (see earlier post of me eating to BB King music!).

Saturday will be fun, mommy and daddy are taking me along to the band competition. I think they'll do well, they always do!



Well, back to dreamland!