William and Maggie have become much more fond of each other over the past couple weeks. It probably began when William started throwing food overboard from his highchair (with the intention of Maggie taking it) and clearly Maggie will love anyone that will give her a bit of food because we never give her scraps.
Since then William will try to feed Maggie from his highchair. I don't mean dropping food, but he holds his hand out and wants to feed her directly from the table. He thinks it's hysterical and she's in heaven.
He also "pets" her. I give her a few pats and William pats her too (or slams his hands down on her rather - good thing she's a huge dog and that doesn't faze her.
Let me share my toys with you.
No worries. Maggie is extra gentle taking those toys. :)
12.12.12 marks the day William made his first walking attempt. We were sitting in the family room that evening on the ground with him and he was standing by Matt. I held out my hands sitting a couple feet away and he took 3 steps wobbling toward me! So funny and I wish we caught the big moves on video! Then at Gymboree the next day I think he was inspired by the majority of walkers in the class. He kept taking 2-3 steps here and there! I wonder how long it will be until we have a walker. He's so fast crawling that I'm not sure I see walking taking #1 mode of transportation for a little bit of time... but we'll see. Go William Go!
He's very good at standing by himself and he'll pick up pretty heavy toys, shake them and still be standing all alone. The balance thing is pretty much down pat. I guess continuing to balance while moving forward (or backward) is another thing though.
Here's some pictures from William at Gymboree. He LOVES that class!
William met Santa Claus for the first time! It started out like this...
Bottom lip sticking out...
WAHHH!!!
And then everything was okay!
It actually wasn't Santa that made William cry. One of Santa's little helpers was a bit overzealous in trying to preemptively avoid a crying baby and in doing so made William very upset. The man was holding a glowing twirling wand and kept shoving it in William's face. Glowing twirling wands do not make William smile though. As you can see in the first picture William is a little leery of what the guy was doing and then boom - waterworks! We kind of said... I think he'll be fine if we just leave him alone... and we picked him up, calmed him down and put him back on Santa's lap. Good to go! Smiles all around. A great first picture with Santa!
