Elias and I are back from our week long trip to Maryland! (He’s already caught a cold at daycare and I’m thankful we’ll all have a 4 day weekend with one another for him to get well again.)
He did so well up there. We spent the first few days at my uncle Scott and his wife Tonya’s house in Ridge. It was cold outside and we couldn’t really enjoy being right on the water, so we spent a lot of time inside playing with almost everything but the toys I lugged over 800 miles and the dog who didn’t care for us much at all.
From there we went to an awesome hotel at the Inner Harbor in Baltimore. My step-father’s brother works there and was able to get us a two bedroom suite for $70 a night. I’m pretty sure the hotel room was bigger than our apartment.
We only stayed there two nights and had one day free, which we used to go to the National Aquarium in Baltimore. My friend Sarah, who lives in Delaware, drove down with her daughter Taylor (2 weeks older than Elias) and we all had a wonderful day, despite my step-father leading us to the wrong restaurant for lunch.
Shortly after this, Elias finished the butter cookie he had immediately shoved in his mouth. Taylor was holding the rest of her butter cookie out and looked away for a second. Elias used this as an opportunity to steal the rest of her cookie and gobble it up. Thankfully, Taylor graciously shared her cookie, but I guess this is something else to be on the lookout for.
Elias and Taylor had a great time, though he started melting down a bit toward the end when it was clear he needed his nap now.
I have a few more pictures from our trip to put up still, but this is the bulk of them.
Elias is on the verge of walking all over the place. He can stand up on his own without a problem and frequently takes 3-7 steps, but ultimately decides to crash to his knees and crawl to his destination. I’m in trouble when he learns how fast running can get him to places.
You can view all the pictures from Scott’s and the Aquarium starting here on Flickr.
Elias took a few steps between me and Mark tonight! I’m so glad Mark was able to see him take his first steps (even if he isn’t truly walking yet) before we left for Maryland. I have a feeling Elias is going to get the hang of walking while we’re up there. We leave tomorrow night. I really hope the drive goes well.
I’m going to take a lot of pics and hopefully videos while I’m up there, so expect a big update in a little over a week!
There are several new photos on Flickr starting here.
Last Christmas, Mark and I got this little fabric play yard thing for Elias which he never really cared for. Several months after that, we got a big bag of balls to fill it, but we only got the balls out once. Mark decided he wanted to get the whole shebang out again and now my living room looks like a Chuck E. Cheese blew up inside of it.
Elias got a kick out of playing with the balls, but little holds his interest nowadays except exploring the areas and things we tell him are off limits.
Last week, Elias started standing unsupported for several seconds at a time. Throughout the week, he mastered this skill and can usually stand unsupported until he feels the need to move somewhere. He’s getting more daring at trying to take a step, but it usually ends with him on his hands and knees and crawling away. Yesterday he took one full step before falling on his hands and knees.
This weekend, he fully mastered standing up on his own (without needing to pull up on a wall or object.) A couple times yesterday, he also crawled off a few times with his arms and legs extended instead of the usual crawling position. I can’t help but think walking is right around the corner.
He’s babbling in baby sentences now. He uses a few baby words pretty regularly (”slur”, “huh”, “nana”) but I cannot at all tell what he means. On Saturday, he said, “Teh” several times when trying to get Teyla’s attention. (He also discovered the joy of feeding her Cheerios.) The only word he consistently uses correctly that I can figure out is, “uh-oh”. There have been several times when we’ve had to do a double-take when he says something because it sounds like he’s saying something specific. Yesterday he was in his pack and play and I was in bed and Mark said it sounded like he distinctly said, “Get. Up.” twice. Since he rarely repeats these words or sentences, I don’t really feel it’s right to count them.
Here are a couple more pictures. We’re hoping to get a smaller camera sometime soon to make it easier to whip out and take photos. Elias and I will be in Maryland next week. I’m really apprehensive about that and don’t feel good at all for separating him from Mark for so long, so we’ll see how that goes.
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