Cody Walks

One day when I was feeding Cody he was being particularly crazy. He kept slapping my hand with the spoon, spitting food out, and trying to crawl out of his high chair, even though he was starving. So finally I sat back and folded my arms and sat there staring at him. Now, whenever he is frustrated with me, he sits there, folds his arms and glares at me! I wish I could get a picture of it, but it wouldn't work. He's just so little, it's amazing what he picks up!!!

He has suddenly become a fairly good sleeper:) When it's bedtime or naptime, we go sit in our glider and I either rock him a little or just sit with him and he usually is mad for a few minutes and then just drifts off in 5 to 10 minutes. After a year of rarely sleeping through the night, I'm fairly excited about this new habit! He will never need as much sleep as babies his age typically need, but he is such a good baby I can't complain. Crying it out was never going to work for Cody, or ME, maybe with the next one!

I can now say that Cody is officially walking. I always imagined a big post saying 'he's walking'! but it's so gradual, that I didn't even realize it until a few days ago when he kept walking up to me just saying hi, making sure I'm around...walking! He walks! He finally figured out how not to run when he uses his little legs. From what I hear though, with your second, you discourage walking:)