Dallas Trip

Saturday morning, we drove to Dallas to see the family. We spent the day with Grandma H. before meeting daddy's Aunt, cousin and her kids and husband (the Teeds) for dinner. While at Grandma H.'s, he played outside in the grass while Grandma H. hung her clothes to dry. He really was not sure about the grass. He was more interested in touching and pulling on her flowers. The neighbor came by for a quick visit to meet Collin.

We then met the rest of the family for dinner and went back to their house (the Teed house) for a nice visit. They have 2 boys, Ben (5) and Will (3) and a 3 week old newborn, Hollis. I thought that the boys would not be too interested in Collin but, other that that, I did not really know what to expect. I was SOOO wrong. The boys LOVED playing with Collin and showing him their toys. Collin did his best to keep up with them too. He crawled from Will to Ben to see what they were doing. Along the way, he had to stop at the coffee table, pull up to chew on it or see what was on it. Then......their dog came in the house and Collin yelled with excitement and crawled to the dog to slap on him (that is how Collin pets the animals right now....right after he pulls their hair out a little). I think Collin liked Will the best because he was blond like Collin and he was closer to Collin's height. That night, Collin was not interested in going to bed anytime soon because he was so wound up from the day's activities. He did not eat his last meal for the night so I knew he would get up in the middle of the night like he did. Grandma gave him about 4 oz around 1:30am and that is all it took for him to sleep until his usual 7am.

The next morning, Collin had his first sink bath at Grandma H's house. He really liked it...especially playing with the faucet. Maybe he remembered the water coming out of something that looked like that in his tub at home. We went back to the Teed house to cook out but it was raining so we cooked in. Collin had the best time....again. That night, mommy and daddy went on a date to see Baby Mama while Grandma H. watched Collin.

He did learn to be more aggressive with his crawling and to not be as reserved about trying something new. He is all over the place now from crawling, to pulling up or bouncing while you hold him. Forget sitting still unless he is really hungry or tired....no, even when he is tired he fights to stay awake so he will not miss out on anything. So.....in just a matter of days, Collin can crawl, pull up to standing, regularly take at least 4-5 steps forward while someone is holding his hands, go back to a sitting position from standing (not gracefully and not as often as he falls and lands on the head down) and turn in one spot to crawl in another direction. He still gets stuck in a corner and cannot back up. He just does not know what to do when he gets there.