Little Changes Big Changes

It amazes me how time flies when you are working and looking after a child and just living every-day life. Here it is already the middle of May, Sam is growing before my eyes, and there's a hint of summer in the air. Life's changing nature is never more keen than in the spring, and this spring especially seems even moreso. My son seems to surprise me every day with new words, new skills, new humour....he is unbelievable.

As we do every April, we went to Hatteras Island NC (part of the Outer Banks) for a week of holiday-ing and relaxing. The house we stayed in had several flights of stairs to which Sam had unlimited supervised access. He mastered climbing up and down the stairs that week. He also mastered the words "apple", "en haut" (up in french, although it sounds more like uh-oh), and putting a great effort towards the word "turtle". More recently Sam has added the words "hat", "hot", "flower/fleur", "tree/arbre", "juice/jus", "wow" and "yay" to his ever-growing vocabulary. He is a very communicative little guy. :) He LOVES music and singing, I swear he would be happy to listen to me sing "twinkle twinkle little star" over and over and over again.

He also took his first few steps while in Hatteras but hadn't taken any since. That is until last night. It had been a good month since Sam attempted to take any steps, and then out of nowhere, after his bath last night he just started walking between Tim and I. Tim took some video, but Sam was completely naked, so it won't be going up here. However, I did manage to get a few clips of Sam walking today. We were halfway through a diaper change and he decided it was time to walk instead. He would go behind his closet door, peek out and then walk towards me. Enjoy! :)