A Week of Firsts

As the boys get bigger they are each experiencing a lot of firsts. Each day is bringing them new adventures. Last week was a week of many firsts. We decided that since Liam has become quite the little climber that it was time to put him in a big boy bed. It was perfect timing because Emory had just outgrown his toddler bed and was ready to pass it on. Having gone through this transition twice before we knew we were in for loads of fun. Danny had been almost impossible to get to stay in his bed when he was switched to a big boy bed and Shane had not been much easier. In order for Liam's bed to come into the room the crib had to be taken down, which was surprisingly hard on me. As the crib was coming down I realized that this was the first time that we had taken a child out of the crib without a baby ready to go into it. Once we set the bed up in the room Liam was so excited to get into it. We put him to bed and braced ourselves for a busy night. To our surprise he never tried to get out of bed. We thought for sure it would not be this easy with nap but once again he surprised us. He has been in his bed for about a week and for the most part goes to sleep without a fuss and does not get out of bed. For the first couple of days he was scared to get out of the bed at all. He dropped one of his babies out of his bed and was trying so hard to get it without getting out of bed that he ended up doing a somersault.

Another big first in our house over the past week was Cayden starting to walk. He has been cruising for a while so we knew that walking was just around the corner. All of the boys have been late walkers. Danny was 15 months when he started, Shane was 16 months and Liam was almost 17 months when he started walking. Cayden has been my earliest yet at 13 months. A few weeks ago we went to pick him up from the nursery at church and I looked over at him and he stood up all by himself in the middle of the room. When I said something about it the ladies said that he had been doing it all morning. Within a few days we were at the house and he just took off (very very slowly) and spent the whole rest of the day trying to walk. It was like all of a sudden he was determined that he was going to walk. All of the other boys started walking and were running in a day. I am so grateful that Cayden walks incredibly slow. With all of the other ones on the go it is nice to have one that is not going full speed all day.

My boys are growing up on me. These are just the beginning of the firsts that this year is going to bring us.