Video proof of Walking

Ok, so the video is a little dark, but we finally got him taking a few steps. He still prefers to crawl when he's in a hurry, but he's walking more and more. He's the proof!

He's WALKING!

Gunner took his first steps this past Sunday Nov 2nd! All of our cadets that we sponsor were there to witness it, but Mike was at West Point for the football game. Gunner walked about 3 steps to get his toy numerous times, but the most he walked was about 5. It was fun to watch. He's still much more content crawling because it's faster, but he loves to run full speed while he's holding our hands. I think he'll be walking/running unaccompanied soon. I'll try to get some video.

We had a fun Halloween. Gunner had two costumes--we dressed him up as a monkey to trick or treat at the next door neighbors and then he was a scary cat at home when the trick or treaters came to get candy. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to get good pictures of him in the cute little cat outfit.

First Haircut!

Gunner finally had his first haircut. His hair was about an inch past his ear (and we can't possibly have him out of regs). He sat patiently while Mom, Dad and Grandma took turns trying to figure out how to cut his hair. The last picture is after the haircut--unfortunately, he had yams all over his face!

Back in regulation!

10 Months!

"Just a tiny bit more time...." and he'll be walking!!!

Gunner is 10 months old today and yesterday he took two steps and a dive into my lap. We're not counting that as his "official" walk yet because he was very off balance, but he's close. He's cruising all around and crawling faster than we can run!

We weighed him at 19.5 lbs today and he's somewhere around 28 or 29 inches tall. It's hard to tell because we can't get him to sit still long enough to measure. We can't even get his monthly pictures of him sitting in the chair anymore because he just wants to stand up and walk off it. Oh well. I guess we'll have to leave it to the professionals for photos from now on.

We went for a walk today when it was 43 degrees out so it was a good excuse to bundle Gunner up in the snow suit before he grows out of it. It was a riot! He looked like the State Puff Marshmellow man!! It was a nice walk though. With any luck, it'll snow in the next few weeks and we can take him sledding! Yeah!

Back to Normal!

Well, we had quite a scare earlier this week. Monday night, Gunner was up crying most of the night. In the morning, he was pretty much normal (playing, smiling), but he felt a little warm. When he woke up from his morning nap, he was not happy. He wouldn't eat lunch and his fever was at 101.5. We tried to get him to sleep, but he just wanted to be held and he cried and cried. Finally, after some Tylenol with no apparent break in the fever, he was completely lethargic. So, we went to the Acute Care Clinic on base. They took his temp and it was 106!!! They freaked out (and so did we) and we took an ambulance to a local ER. They just gave him Ibuprofin/Tylenol and his fever broke and he was back to his normal happy self. The next morning, half his face was red and swollen with his left eye almost swollen shut. They put him on an antibiotic and he's been fine ever since. We're happy we have our happy baby back. What a scare!

You can kind of see his swollen face in this picture (his left side). It had gone down quite a bit by the time we took this picture.

His hair was crazy after waking up from his nap today.

By the way, we never posted his 9 month stats: 28.5" long (50th percentile) and 18lbs (15th percentile). So, he's growing, but is still on the small side. Funny how he was perfectly healthy when he was off the charts on the small side!

First Trip to the Zoo

We took the day off today and spent a few hours at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo. Gunner loved it and of course, the monkeys were his favorite exhibit. He also loved the bear swimming in the water, and the gorilla with its baby was a hit too.

Mike Finished a Marathon!

Unfortunately, I forgot my camera but we asked another race fan to take some pictures of him and hopefully she'll email them sometime. But, I got some pictures of Mike and Gunner after the race. He did great and was still able to walk the next day. Congratulations to Mike on finishing his first marathon!