...and then he let go of the wall and took his first steps

Well Kaleb took his first steps yesterday at exactly 51 weeks old. We both saw it and our jaws must of been on the floor, we were simply amazed. It is such an wonderful thing to see this little guy walk. I mean 51 weeks ago he was so helpless and couldn't even hold his own head and now he has the balance, coordination and most importantly the confidence to walk on his own.

He is still very unsteady standing without holding on to anything so we don't see him really starting to walk for a little while yet. However he has made huge leaps in the last 3 weeks that maybe he will surprise us again.

Today was a fun day, me and Kaleb went swimming in the morning and tobogganing in the afternoon, we went down the bunny hill on a crazy carpet and he seemed indifferent.

Taking the car for a spin

Just a quick video of Kaleb driving a car. HERE.

Take care

Mathieu

Kaleb is cruising and more!

Lots has happened so fast here. Starting on November 1st when we first saw the house where we are moving in the new year, then Kaleb went from crawling to sitting and only a few short days later he started pulling up on furniture to stand. Now 3 weeks later, he can crawl then entire flight of stairs and he cruises from couch to end table to desk quite confidently. Here is a video of his contagious laughter HERE and a video of him tackling the stairs HERE. We are also getting close to his birthday which is a huge milestone in all our lives, stay tuned for the year one video. A plus tard!

Mathieu, Stacey and Kaleb.

Open and Close

A little update on things around here. Stacey has started school a couple weeks ago. She is working on her masters of nursing on a part time basis, taking one course per semester. This time around its philosophy. Being her layman proof reader let me tell you that I don't understand one bit of what they are talking about. She is catching on and spending lots of her spare time (what little she has) on reading and writing papers/workbook.

Sky is doing great, she came back to us a few weeks ago after having her litter of 7 puppies over the summer. She is slowly regaining back her bad habits but she does provide hours of entertainment to Kaleb. She can't really nap all day like she used too, she has to keep one eye open and move from one end of the room to the next depending on the little guys interest level.

Kaleb of course is doing great, he is scooting around and just wants to chew on different things, mostly the dogs stuff. He has one tooth (top left) with a second (top right) coming out any day now. He is so drooly, he leaves a trail of slime all around the house. Sort of like a quick snail. We started giving him an evening snack just before bed and we were astonished by how much he ate. This has led us to increase his 'sleeping thrue the night" statistics. He went from about 2 nights a week to 3 nights a week so far. We all went to a 1st year birthday party for one of Kaleb's pre birth friends (we met at a birthing class) on Friday and its just amazing how a year has gone by. Kaleb laughs a lot, people just love to hear his laugh, its contagious. Last night we all went for a bike ride around the neighborhood, it was his first time in the chariot being pulled by a bike, he like it, he just watched the world zip by.

As for me, its sort of work work. I get out biking a couple times a week and Kaleb keeps me smilling. Me and Kaleb take swimming once a week, that's fun. Oh and we are currently looking at moving to a house.

As mentioned last week, he loves to open and close doors. Check out our new MOVIE to see what I mean.

Scooty McScooterson

A quick hello and a new little movie to show the scooting method used. Notice the one leg/knee action, he's going to have forearms the size of grapefruits pretty soon. We have installed the baby gate at the top of the stairs because he is just so quick now. His new hobby is closing doors, he loves it. I put him down in the middle of his room, go to the washroom and in 5 seconds I hear the door to his room close, hopefully he doesn't lock himself in a room.

Video

A plus tard
Mathieu

Moving around

We are hiking a lot with Kaleb lately and we took this movie a few months ago of us coming down from our first real hike, he just fell asleep for the entire hike down. HIKING MOVIE.

Over the last few days, he has been making huge leaps by moving on his own. First he sorta spun around on his tummy and realized that he was able to direct himself in the direction of his choice. Then yesterday, he started following the trail of cheerio's, he's not crawling or moving fast but he sort of has that determined look to him. Today, he actually started using his feet to push himself forward, much better waving his feet in the air like he is doing in this CRAWLING MOVIE.

Backward progression

I went to New Brunswick for Dan and Janelle's wedding last weekend, since it was a quick trip there and back Kaleb and Stacey stayed home. On Sunday I got a text from Stacey saying he crawled 6 feet. It was 6 feet backwards but 6 feet none the less. Here are some new pictures from the last few weeks.

Mathieu