It’s only a matter of time now. You are weeks, maybe days, away from walking. This weekend you practiced standing on your own quite a bit…and you did a pretty good job of it! You even took a couple of steps a few different times! It’s only a matter of time before you are up and at ’em!

You have 8 teeth now: 4 full ones on bottom, 2 full ones on the top middle, and the 2 on either side of the top front teeth are about half in.

You’ve been in the pool a few times this summer and LOVE the water. You don’t however, like to be confined to your floatie, just like out of the water, you love to be moving ALL the time!

Oh, and your diaper rash is finally getting better…thank goodness!

A few years from now you can ask me if I remember the time you had the worst diaper rash ever. The answer will be YES! Assuming of course, you never have one that rivals this one!

It all started when we began incorporating cow’s milk into your diet. Thinking your acceptance of it was the only concern, we forged ahead full speed. About 2 weeks in we realized your willingness to drink it was the least of our worries. The big dirty diapers you had in the mornings was our first, and most obvious, indication that something wasn’t right since you NEVER have more than a urine diaper after a full night sleep.

Many poopie diapers and a painful red butt later, we figured out your little digestive system is probably not quite ready for cow’s milk. We immediately stopped giving it to you (about a week ago) but your poor bottom has not quite recovered.

Tonight we took a bath with oatmeal in it which really seemed to help sooth the sore spots. Then you got to play DIAPER FREE on a blanket on the living room floor for about an hour. Though I was fully prepared for it, you surprised me and didn’t go potty at all! YAY!

We’re crossing our fingers that we are hopefully on the road to a full recovery.