New Place

It has been such a long week.  Baby GL left his first home and we moved into a new place.  We consider it cleaner and more "social" with the distance to parks and places to walk. He took the move very well, but he definitely knew we were not in the same place.  He was actually a little scared looking around and not recognizing where he was at.  Lately, Baby GL has really noticed the different places we go.  He will get very clingy when he not sure about a place.  Clingy and then he'll try to climb up you which there's no higher point than having him wrap around my neck and shoulders.  It just shows how much he's grown.  He continues to show he has the curiosity and intelligence of a 15 month old, but the body of maybe an 8 month old.


Baby GL has been making great strides within the last week.  He has started crawling.  It's a little unstable, still, but he manages to get where he needs to go.  H's even made it over to the bathroom knowing his daddy was in there.  He doesn't let anything be an obstacle for him.  It will take a little more time before he's really taking off crawling.  Something else he's learned to do, which is a little dangerous for us now, is stand in his crib.  I stood him up in his crib the other day just to see what he'd do and he was so excited.  Well, no he's figured out how to get up there on his own.  I found him there this morning.  Now we have to lower to mattress.  He's really been impressing us so much these last few weeks.  He's just at that point where he's bursting out of his "baby" shell and moving into being a toddler.


I'm starting to think that writing about Baby GL's accomplishments may be boring for anyone but us.  After everything we've seen and been through it's just been so exciting to witness everything he does.  I think the moment he takes some bigger chance eating will be a huge milestone.  He has 2 teeth on the bottom.  It's hard to get in there to see if anymore are pooping out.  He has the desire to eat, not just his fruit and veg.  I was eating a muffin and he started to excessively swallow and grabbed my muffin out of my hand.  The desire is there to eat more, but when we give him and of the dissolving rice baby snacks, he chokes when he gets a piece on is tongue.  He will attack a MUM MUM like a champ but then he can't swallow anything that gets in his mouth.  He just licks it and sucks on it until it falls apart into tiny mushy pieces.  We'll have to keep waiting for him to get just a bit bigger, I think.