Mobile and on a mission

The past month or so has seen my boy take his first tentative steps. It started with him holding both my hands and standing for a few seconds before his legs buckled, then it progressed to walking with both my hands/his baby walker without falling over. Then he let go of one hand and walked although I quickly realised he couldn't walk without waving his free hand about like he was trying to flag down a passing plane.

Last week I let go of both of his hands and he took two or three steps to me before falling on his arse. But today, oooo, I went to pick him up from his granny's and not only did he start barking "DA DA!" when he saw me coming, but I put him on his feet and he walked across the livingroom to me! Oh god was it a brilliant feeling :)

It's funny, I still remember him being a tiny, hungry baby who could fit along my forearm and now he's walking about.. well.. toddling about but let's not argue semantics. So now comes the part where I have to nail everything down and put all my action figures, ornaments, etc up higher. Also, he's developed a fascination for opening and closing drawers which sees me finally embrace the "parental panic" part of being a parent.

Something's missing

My boy's been taken on holiday by his mother to Germany for 10 days and this is the first time I haven't had him for any length of time. It's weird because he's not there to smile at me in the morning or fuss when I take him away from climbing the stairs, or get hyper when I bring food near him.

I really miss him and it doesn't help that I was going through photos and uploading some onto my bebo account (ugh.. I'm starting to like bebo too). Found this one and it made me feel even worse :p I like it because he's got that little frown going on as there was about 15 people all smiling at him. Plus, that's one of the few pictures where I actually look like a responsible dad ;)

And I like this one mostly because he's so happy behind the wheel and I look seriously worried.

Looking forward to Friday though - I'm getting him for the full weekend :D