Year's End and a New Skill!
Most days, the boy was not much interested in his little green car unless you pushed him along. Or if the bear was on it. Or if he could just get the little rattle off the car to play with it. But TODAY, the last day of 2008, when he's about 10 1/2 months old, he decides he'll PUSH the car (in it's upright walker position) when no one is really paying attention. Daddy was lounging on the floor with JHP in the living room and John just crawled over to the car and before Daddy knew it, he was four or five steps away. Daddy called for me (I was in the office with my mother doing something). I quickly responded thinking something was needed that only Mom could take care of. And there he was pushing his car! I ran back to get the video camera and caught this footage. There is more, but it's much the same. Didn't want to bore you! Now, I KNOW that it won't be long before I'll be running after him. He already thinks its a game when he looks back at me and smiles and then high-tails it in the other direction. You wouldn't think he could move fast on all fours, but you'd be wrong!
I hope your new year is happy and you enjoyed this little slice of Pitchers' Progress. Signing off 2008...
-EBP-
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On Sunday, J_Cubed (i.e., Jimmy, Jane and June) came over to exchange gifts. June was really excited to have Baby Peanut open his gifts, a cute Leap Frog guitar and some MegaBlocks. Daddy got a helicopter and Mommy got a much needed gift card for some massages! There was a cute moment when John H. seemed like he wanted to hug June. Unfortunately, June just can't hold the chunk of boy. Afterwards, they played together looking in the mirror.
We drove to Corpus on Tuesday to see Nana and Papa Jim. That night JHP decided he'd take a few steps while holding my hands. He hadn't done this before, really. Most of the time, he just sinks to the ground, content to crawl. But he took several steps across the kitchen that night. On Wednesday, he wowed us with his ability to shake his head yes and no when asking a question. Sometimes, it seems that he's actually telling you what he wants and then sometimes, I think it's just something to do. And he also did this cute little head sway from the chin. It's kinda hard to describe... He does seem to be trying to communicate more using hand signals. We think when he hits his mouth with his fist that he's trying to ask for either water or food. He will make the sign for milk on occasion, but not very consistently. We need to work some more on these things. More frequently now, he is opening and closing his hand as if to wave goodbye. 
We left for home on Saturday and brought Nana with us. John N went back to work on Monday and the rest of us have just been relaxing and enjoying the time together. Mom's helped me out a lot by staying home with JHP during his naps so I can run errands. And we've gotten out and done some shopping, too. We started feeding JHP bits off our plates when we were out at lunch and to our surprise, he really didn't turn anything down. It seems that even though he may make a face, you can't use that as the judge as to whether or not he liked it. He grimaces every time you put something firm in his mouth, but he'll work on it and hold his mouth open for more if you offer it. Last night we tried baked chicken, rice and zucchini. And he's getting pretty good at getting things into his mouth on his own, if it's big enough to grasp and not too slippery. Yesterday I introduced some freeze-dried cubes of banana and strawberry. He ate them right up along with the yogurt melts, star puffs, and cheerios.
Here's a poor picture of his upper teeth. I had to hang him over the ottoman to get this one. He won't show me his teeth when the camera is around.
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