Monkey

We have a climbing monkey on our hands!

Nickolas has found a new favorite place to play.

He is so proud of himself!

He has wanted to be up on the back of the couch for a long time. But we have told him that if he can't get up himself there, he can't go up.

So now that he can climb up onto the top of the couch by himself, he would spend all day up there if he could.

 



 

He hasn't gotten crazy enough to jump down yet. But I'm sure we will see it.

I suppose if we were going to tell the kids not to climb on the couch, we should have started a while ago...





 

9 months

Nickolas is 9 months old today.
And another lucky Friday the 13th! I am amazed at how far we have come. How much Nickolas has grown, and how much I have grown. I've heard it before that you learn so much when you have a special needs child. That you look at life a whole new way, take time to appreciate the little things, you appreciate everything instead of taking things for granted.

Nickolas is doing so much. You can hear the wheels in his heading turning, trying to figure out how to do something. Usually it involves trying to get Katheryn's toys, clothes, hair or just Katheryn. He is rolling to get himself places, or just squirming around. I got foam squares that I put him on, it's nice and soft and means he's not picking up dog hair and putting it in his mouth. We have a big hairy dog (Bernese Mountain dog) and there is hair everywhere!! Seconds after I vacuum it is back.




I took his 9 month picture, I take it and you can see how much he has matured over the month. So much more than when he is in front of you every day.

Here is our 7, 8, and 9 month pictures