I know we say this every few weeks, but once again it feels like Cory woke up one morning in the last week and was suddenly more like a little kid than a baby. He still doesn’t walk, but is now very good at climbing up on the furniture. He doesn’t talk, but understands a lot of what is said to him, and has become keenly interested in being read to. In addition to climbing, his pastimes include taking toys out of his toy box and putting them in again, reading books to himself (he’ll get one and babble very intently at it), and seeing how far he can drop something on the other side of the baby gate before he can’t reach it anymore.
He is also, and I cannot emphasize this enough, extremely silly. I can’t describe it, only emphasize it. Silly is silly. You’ll just have to trust me.
But what made me really feel like a mom was yesterday, while I was playing the Wii. He climbed up on the couch and sat down next to me. Considering that he usually only climbs the couch with the intent of crawling around, and had never sat on it properly before without being placed there by one of us, it was really something. Suddenly he was a little person who was sitting on the couch to watch the TV.