It’s been quite a while since we last had an update of Nicholas. This is probably going to be the last update for this year. It’s almost Christmas so I would like to take the opportunity to say “Merry Christmas and have a Happy New Year” from Michael, Mui, and Nicholas. And we wish you all a wonderful holiday and may the New Year bring more joy and happiness to everyone.
Nicholas has finally learned how to crawl. He’s being doing it for quite a while now. I think it’s been about three weeks since he’s being able to crawl. Right now, he goes everywhere around the house. Ever since he knew how to crawl, he doesn’t seem to like his walker much anymore. My mother tells me that he doesn’t seem to want to sit in it for a very long time. At home, we let him go all over the house. He loves to follow the cats. He has, more than once, followed the cats from the bedroom all the way out to the dinning room. One time, I used the remote control to lure him into following me and he was doing really fine until he thought about taking a detour. He saw that the restroom was somewhere he has not visited yet so he just took a suddenly left turn on me. I had go in and bring him back out into the hall before he started heading towards things that we really didn’t want him around. Right now, we have to watch him every second because he’s so mobile now. If you don’t look for a second or two, he’ll be gone. He enjoys crawling a lot and I’m kind of glad that he can move around by himself.
There is one amazing development that I couldn’t believe about him. About a week after he was able to crawl freely and quickly, he was able to pull himself up straight. He can now hold onto an item and pull himself straight up. Sometimes, once he pulled himself up, his legs are pretty far away from his hands. He will slowly move his legs closer to his hands and before you know it, he’s standing up straight by himself. We have some laundry baskets on the bedroom floor and he uses those to lift himself up. But the problem is that after he’s up there, he doesn’t know what else to do so he’ll complain about it a bit. Because we have the basket flipped upside down, he can bang on it for a while, but after about 2 minutes or so, he’ll start complaining about not knowing what else to do. Then we would put him back down on the floor and he would go back to it and stand straight up again. At my parents house, my mother tells me that he holds on to the sofa and sometimes walks along it a bit, but not too much nor too far. A lot of people have told us that because he can stand himself up without anyone helping him, he will soon be able to walk. I mean, he can take little steps at a time now and can move himself closer to the laundry basket without any help or falling down.
He still doesn’t have any teeth yet. He’s almost 7 months old and he still doesn’t have any teeth. That worries me a bit (but everything worries me when it comes to Michael and Nicholas). I have a friend whose baby is only eight days older than Nicholas is and her baby already has his little front tooth. I really want to know when he will have his first little tooth.
We’ll be going up to Oregon tomorrow to visit Michael's father and step-mother for Christmas. I have never been there before so it will be a really nice experience for me. The weekend after New Years, we will be going to visit Nicholas’ great grandma.
Well, to end this, have a fun holiday!