Jonah took his first steps today! Of course, I wasn't expecting it so I didn't have the camera out : (
But it was so exciting. Jeanette, his physical therapist, came for her usual every-other-week visit and I was kind of bummed because he really hadn't shown much progress of the last two weeks. He's been doing some one handed walking, but I couldn't get him to stand up from all fours the way she had done at her last visit.
But to my surprise, as soon as she started working with him, he was standing up like a pro - almost doing it on his own! And he stood for about 5 seconds a couple of different times, and YES! he took his first steps!!! He took 1 step a few times, and one time he took 3 steps! I got all teary eyed and had to stop myself before I started bawling in front of Jeanette.
I've been able to convince myself over the last few months that even though Jonah is late in a few things and has to get some extra help, there is nothing wrong with him and that it's nobody's fault - but I can't help but have this worry sitting in the back of my head. It's such a relief to see that he's finally showing signs of moving forward. I am very proud of my little man! I can't wait to get some pictures of him walking around by himself. And as soon as I do - I will blog it for the world to see!

Jonah has the best physical therapist ever! He's been seeing her for about 6 months now since he was taking his time deciding that he wanted to crawl. She is going to stay with him until he walks. I'm sure that we could have just left it all alone and he would have figured it all out eventually - but I'm so glad that we decided to go ahead and do it. Here are some of the benefits I've discovered:



And now, we are almost walking! At Jonah's PT yesterday, Jonah started to stand up almost unassisted and do one-handed steppy step. It will probably be another month or so before he's ready to walk on his own, but I feel better every time I hear her say"he's improved so much since I last saw him!"

It's CRAZY how quickly time is passing! Jonah is a year old! Of course I already know this. I threw him a birthday party and got his pictures taken and all that jazz. But I'm not sure it really hit me until yesterday when I checked the back of his mouth to find tooth #9 hidden several spaces behind his front cluster of teeth that he's had since 8 months. MOLARS!?! I did not expect them so soon...but then again when are one year molars suppose to come...around one year!? It's just so crazy that we're already at that point.
And it happened the day after a conversation with Dwight which made me realize how much faster time seems to be moving compared to several years ago. Our two years in Albuquerque were probably the longest of my life! I think it's because we knew that we didn't want to stay there and just didn't feel settled. We sold our house BARELY after the two year mark an important milestone in homeownership when we wouldn't have to play sales tax on any profit made - as if there was any profit to pay sales tax on!). Well, Feb 1st was the wont-have-to-pay-sales-tax-if-selling-the-house point for our home here in Mims. That's just crazy to us cause it feels like we've been here only a fraction of the time that we were in New Mexico! I guess contentment does that to you : )
So here we are...13 1/2 months after my little tooth-filled cutie pie was born and two years since we settled into our lives as Floridians and I have made only a couple of blog posts! Eeek I'm bad. But the desire is there! My reasons for wanting to blog are two fold: first to give myself an opportunity to remember specific events and moments in a way that friends and family can enjoy (aka not through my embarrassingly horrible handwriting found in my journal) and also so that I can take more time to realize my blessings, because there are many.
Ok, so what do we do now - we blog! Time is going by way to fast for me to keep saying "eventually I will". So...wish me luck!