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Oh boy. Oh boy indeed. Our little Cade is an adventurer, troublemaker, a bonafide reacher-for-the-stars, or iPhones and we just took his 11 month pictures (a hard feat now that he wants to eat the stickers rather than wear them, although we did manage to stick it to his head without him noticing). I can barely believe that we are closing in on his first birthday. This last month he’s learned how to point saying “Oooo”. He now points at everything.  He gives big open mouth kisses and says “mama,” “da da,” and “cah” (while pointing at cars going past the window). Which makes us laugh (and cringe) because it sounds a bit like a Boston accent.

So besides being in the throws of first birthday party planning (which I am loving by the way!) we are also in the throws of winter, a horrible New England winter that the locals will likely be talking about for years. Snow, snow and more of it. I’ve never been able to stay home in snow without incredible guilt from work so being a mostly stay at home mommy now, means that even with all this snow, this winter is way more fun.

We are struggling a bit to figure out how to dress a baby in this weather. He hates snow. He hates being too hot. You can’t put them in their seat in a coat on without it affecting the safety of the straps. So you need to heat the car up first before you leave. We don’t have a garage. Try putting a very active baby down on the floor to go start the car, you come back to cabinets wide opened and rummaging.

Baby-proofing is slow going because I HATE not being able to get in my cabinets. Gracious. Grocery shopping, life, everything is slow going at the moment.

Cade is astounding us. Two weeks ago he pulled himself up to stand. We screamed so loud and with such excitement that we made him cry. Poor babe. But that was a moment we had been waiting for. He was early pulling up to stand at 6 months on his sweet foot and little nub but it took two months post bilateral Symes amputation for him to be comfortable standing now on his cute prosthetic feet.

And now that he’s figured out how much more he can reach, well, he’s a bit of a terror…trying to climb, take steps and get in to everything. And I mean everything. Mothering gets a whole lot more difficult when they’re climbing in bath tubs head first, trying to break down baby gates at the top of stairs and generally pulling all sorts of stuff down on their head.

Watching Cade reach all these big milestones makes me day dream about those first unassisted steps. What a sweet little victory that will be. One that I don’t think is too far away given his propensity to blow our minds. A huge milestone for any baby, but for a baby doing it on prosthetic feet, well there will certainly be tears from this momma. Happy 11 months sweet Cade, adventure on little man, we’ll be celebrating your AMAZING first year soon.