Another Year, Another First

As the turn of the year takes place, we will be having the first night of 2015, the first day of 2015, etc. Another year is now behind us, and your mother and I have two fantastic little sons who are growing at exceedingly impressive rates. By this time now, Aiden is all but walking on his own accord. It seems as though he just honestly enjoys holding hands because he continually demonstrates that he has all of the working knowledge of walking that is required to get the job done. And for Jacob, we are having a most delightful time with you young man as you continually find words to put together to make compound words. You are beginning to assemble phrases, and you take great sport out of following commands in order to receive your well deserved praise for a job well performed. In the mean time we have all been growing together as a family, forming a more perfectly solid bond between the four of us through the hardships that continue to press us on all sides.
Regardless of the toils and setbacks we do encounter, we always have it made because we have each other and that my sons is what truly matters in a man's lifetime. If a man wastes all of his money, he can work hard and after a while he can earn it all back. But when a man wastes his time, there is never a way for him to reclaim it.

Taking a Walk

For some time now you have been mastering the art of standing on your two feet under your own power. From the beginning you would hoist yourself up using the side bars on your crib and then hold on to them for support as you stood or slightly jumped in place. After a while of this you discovered that you could get yourself standing, then holding onto the side bar with one hand, you could lean over and pick up some toy that caught your attention and thereby be standing in your crib holding the bar in one hand and a toy in the other. Shortly thereafter you began letting go completely, as if to say "Look mom, no hands!" While doing this you would make motions which were likened to those of a surf boarder keeping his balance while riding on his board. Your ability to make subtle controlled falls in order to get yourself back down also quickly developed.

At this point you now walk around the parameter of your crib using the side rail for support as you make your trip around confines of the crib. This is quite amazing to all of us as you seem to be well on your way to walking anywhere under your own power. For this reason your mother and I have begun to work with you by holding your hands and getting you to take a few steps here or a few steps there. We got you a pair of shoes, which you really enjoy wearing because while they are on you, your full attention turns directed at pulling at the velcro strap and then putting it back down. I suppose the sound is something of an attention getter, and this process keeps you occupied for some large moments in time.

Your also beginning to get a little bit of air underneath your feet as you make you gentle little jumps at the side rail of your crib while watching whatever happens to be on the television. We are trying to locate a new place for us to live because our current arrangement is in very tight quarters, not allowing you ample room to move about on the floor. Our goal is to in the next few months move into a larger place with a thick plush carpeting that you will be able to crawl around or run around on without much fear of your hurting yourself when you have your occasional tumble. These tumbles are to be expected as a young one begins to fully learn the use of his legs and feet and works to fine tune the balance that is required to make this motion possible.

I am going to leave this post at this. And now we are going to have a little bit of father and son story time because I really just feel like reading to you. Perhaps "Green Eggs and Ham" will be a good selection for tonight. After that it will soon be time for you to turn in for the night.