At 13 months old (yesterday) I think we can say Chase is an official walker. I love love love this age. I like walking so much better than crawling. I am just soaking up every little thing baby about him right now because I know it's going to be gone in a flash. He seems like so much more of a baby to me still than the twins did at One. I wonder if it is because he is our last baby? He doesn't have very much hair still & the twinnies had full heads of hair by now. He is such a little lover baby and loves to give hugs and be cuddled still. He slept through the night for one week straight back in Oct (the first time he had ever slept through the night) then he got sick and started waking up at night again. When I took him in for his 1 year apt a few weeks back the Dr. told me that I HAVE to stop feeding him bottles in the middle of the night when he wakes up because the longer I do that the longer he will wake up at night. DUH. Tell me something I don't already know DOC. I guess I just had to work up to it because at 1 year and almost 1 month later I let him cry it out. Yup...I did it! Jerame was holding me down in bed at 3am saying...don't do it...don't go get him...he is fine. It actually physically hurts my body to hear him scream and cry :(. I just picture him standing up holding onto the side of his crib waiting for me to come in & scoop him up. But the good news is, he only screamed for about 20 minutes that 1st night before going back to sleep for the rest of the night. The next night he only woke once & cried for a short time and then last night no waking at all. This is huge progress people! I think by Christmas he is going to be running after the twins to keep up with them. They are still so good with him & really adore him. Chloe is such a little Momma to him even when he grabs a hold of her hair & rips it out in handfuls she still never gets anrgy with him. This will all change I know but it's so sweet to see the love they have for him.
