Back home

We are back safe and sound in New Orleans. We drove back on Monday after letting Fay get comfortably out of the area. The life of Chance has been a bit hectic lately but we should be home for a while now. Chance has been doing a few new things. One of the big new things he is doing is talking a lot more, he now says "lights" whenever one catches his eye or when he wants one turned on. He also says "toes" and "deedle" and "what's this" a lot. He gets in moods where he wants to know all about things. He will point at all kinds of things and ask "what's this?" He is really interested in learning the names for things even if he is not using them all quite yet. Another big thing he is doing is climbing out of his crib. The morning before we left for Florida we heard him in his crib talking to himself like he does most mornings then we heard his little feet on the floor and soon after he was knocking on our bedroom door. He did not fall or anything, we are still not sure how he climbed out but he did. Then he climbed out of the pack-n-play everyday we were in Florida. The first day for naptime he climbed out as fast as he could for an hour and a half before he finally desided to go to sleep. I just kept carrying him back in and laying him down and eventually it worked. After that first day he just went to sleep when I put him down and came out when he woke up after his nap. The hardest thing was in the mornings because we were sharing a room instead of sitting in his crib and playing for a while he just climbed out and it turns out he wakes up a lot earlier than he let on before. He would just climb out and start bouncing on the bed. Anyway, after we got home we took the front piece off of the crib and ordered the part to turn it into a toddler bed for now he can get out and in his bed at will he can also fall out until the piece comes but so far that has not happened. I will be back to write more tomorrow. Pic #1 - Chance on My Mom's exercise bike, Pic #2 - hanging by the pool in Florida we went in a couple times Pic #3 - sitting in his carseat at home while we had it out of the car to clean it Pic #4 - Chance wearing my Mom's glasses.