A year of absolute Heaven.
He started walking Sunday September 14.
Dang, this is awesome.
(He's also simultaneously figured out how to climb up stairs by himself.
Dang, this is terrifying.)
He got a fever Thursday the 18th that went all the way to 104 degrees on Saturday. Went to the doctor Friday because he was teetering around after a few days of walking perfectly straight, so I thought the fever might be an ear infection. But Dr. Willis says that sometimes just a fever will make them off-balance. He gave me one of those looks that he must give all hypersensitive parents... didn't stop me from calling him at 10:00 Saturday night wondering if the fever might be from Dominic swallowing something that was blocking his intestine (since there hadn't been any activity down there for a couple of days). Dr. Willis assured me that was not it. Sure enough, all #2 activities resumed on Sunday and by Monday night the fever was gone. I'm glad Dr. Willis was right. Maybe he just got a fever from all the neural connections he was making learning how to walk. Last time he got a fever, his appetite totally changed (he used to eat anything and everything and now he's a lot pickier), and I'm wondering if it wasn't a case of chicken-vs-the-egg with the neural connections (from him developing an opinion) causing that fever, too.
During these most recent fever days (which finally ended just in time for his birthday), and even a few days before, Dominic started having some trouble sleeping through the night. After his fever broke Monday, that night when he woke up, Eddie and I decided to tough it out and let him cry himself back to sleep. It was agony. Eddie says we're probably going to have a lot more moments of "it's going to hurt me a lot more than it's going to hurt you" over the course of our parenting.
And sure enough, last night (Tuesday), he slept great all night. Hopefully he will tonight, too, after he had a wonderful birthday day.
Oh here's some video from our new video camera of the Birthday Song over Dominic's Happy Birthday blueberry pancake breakfast.
Thank you, Jesus, for a whole year with my baby angel!
