First Steps, First Words

No photos to accompany this post. Just wanted to keep everyone updated.

A few days ago Eric woke me up from a solid nap to let me know that he had just seen Wyatt take his first four intrepid steps from the computer desk to the coffee table. Today I left Wyatt with Liz to go to the doctor and while he was there Liz reports a few more steps! So far everybody and their dog has seen him walk but mommy :)

Also about a month back Wyatt started saying 'da'. So Eric tried to encourage him by responding and gradually it became clear that Wyatt was indeed saying 'dadadada' in reference to his pop. So Wyatt's first word is officially Daddy!

We've also been speculating that Wyatt can say 'dog'. When he sees Pete and Liz's puppies he quite often says something that sounds remarkably like dog. I thought maybe it was just babble but today while Liz was watching him she said not only did he say 'dog' repeatedly, but when one of the pups wasn't paying attention to him he hollared 'DOG' at her to get her attention. So Wy's second word is officially dog!

So far no progress on getting him to say mom. I repeat it to him over and over in the hopes he'll catch on, but he mostly just watches me intently and then replies with 'DAD DAD DAD'. Oh well :)

-Kat