It's been a while....

I have neglected Brandon's blog for the past month. Oops.

All in all, November really wasn't that exciting of a month. October was jam packed with lots of fun outings and day trips, and November seemed to blitz by with me learning the ropes of a new job, the rains starting, and well, just adjusting to a new schedule. We did get in a trip down to the states to take advantage of our stronger dollar, and did get some great experiences in. As you can see, I have worked some magic with the dates to help fill in a few of the gaps.

Brandon is just over 16 months, and is talking up a storm. He is picking up a handful of words every day, and always is charming us. He has cut three more teeth in the last week, and the rest are all pretty close. So that will be it until the 2 year old molars come in. It is weird, he had 5 for so long, and now they are all coming in fast and furious! He is almost walking. It feels like we have been waiting forever for him to take his first independent steps, but Brandon has been cruising around the furniture, pushing his pushie toys, walking with us holding his hands, standing for a brief moment solo, but still not on his own. He is a little late, but still in the normal range. I always figured he would walk early and talk a little later on, but he seems to have his own mind on that. He has so many words, and is picking up things so quickly, that the walking just doesn't always seem to be the number one priority. However, it seems to have really changed in the last few days - he gets up and in to his chairs all the time, and really wants to get up and walk with either the pushie or around the coffee table and do laps pulling himself up on just about anything. We are also walking more with him, and you can almost see a daily difference with his confidence. I think one day he is just going to take off and leave us all in the dust.

Time and time again Brandon teaches us that how things happen and when, really is up to our kids (with some nurturing to help nature along) and that you really do need patience because you can build it, but it is up to the magic moment they are ready to take their next step.

PS We really did go from a lot of snow to torrential rains and +13 degrees all in the space of about 48 hours.