February 2009 - Crawling!

Edison has made his first move towards independence this past week. He finally put it all together and began crawling. It started with a couple feet here and there and now, a week later, he can crawl the length of the room. Tonight he came into the kitchen while I was making dinner & opened one of the drawers. This is very cute and it is always exciting when he reaches a milestone. But, now we have to be a lot more vigilant of his activities and of course, we need to baby proof.

Edison is now seven months old - can you believe it? He is a full-fledged infant - he can sit and play with a toy for awhile, then crawl over to another toy and investigate it. He gets giddy when a cat moves into a room - he tries to pet them, but they flee at his over-zealous grabs. I absolutely adore him and could just eat him up. His two upper teeth are now "cut" and are driving him nuts.




Thanks Auntie Marleigh for the awesome Nike track suit! Soon I'll be running in it.







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Thanks for the carload of toys from my Phillips cousins, Auntie Carolyn. It is perfect timing to inherit this scooter. (I call this Edison's snowboarding outfit.)




I dragged Edison along to a seven-hour swim meet this weekend. The place was packed and loud (middle school champs), yet he managed to catch up on his beauty sleep. I couldn't believe when someone pulled the fire alarm and we had to evacuate the building at 8:30 at night into 17 degree weather. Brrrrr~ luckily our car was close so we stayed in that until the all clear. Can you imagine 200+ middle school swimmers in swim suits heading outside - crazy!




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Here is the infamous Gorton Pond - you can see it has frozen over. We went out on it for a walk on Sunday. Our house is in the background (to my left).