It happened. Daniel already managed to get his first bragging rights....his first set of stitches! (2 to be exact) We were at church of all places. He was running around before a service started and tripped and fell into the frame of a chair, which somehow managed to give him a very large gash in his forehead. Which, being a head wound, bled ( Read more... )

Around the time when Dirk usually gets home, Daniel naturally starts to get antsy and a bit whiny. Today I had just gotten dinner started (no small feat anymore) and wanted a couple of minutes to relax. Daniel was whining by the gate wanting to go downstairs and play (which would inevitably lead to going up and down the stairs 50 times which my ( Read more... )

( In which my sanity slowly slips away... )

I have been so forgetful lately that it almost didn't even occur to me to post this, but Daniel is now officially a toddler! He has been taking random steps for a little while now, but never anything steady or significant - just practice. Now, he's walking at least as much as he crawls if not more. He can walk across rooms and can stop and start ( Read more... )