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Your privacy is a PRIMARY consideration of AskDrSears.com. Your e-mail address is used ONLY by AskDrSears.com for the purpose of announcing news, events and special offers available only AskDrSears.com registered users. WEEK 48 - JANUARY 2003
Walk this way.
Joshua started walking a couple weeks ago. Now he is an expert. Since he is more mobile, we've had to expand his territory. We moved the living/toy room gate to block off the stairs, and now he has the run of most of the downstairs.
We are way lucky. He doesn't really get into things. Our first two kids pretty much got into anything they could reach, but it seems that Joshua is so fascinated with walking, that he is content to do just that. He'll walk into the kitchen, make a few circles, then walk through the dinning room into the front hall, turn around and walk back into the kitchen. He passes many grabable objects along the way without even a glance. He can spend hours just walking around. Child of the corn.
Joshua loves corn, and Cheryl makes it a few times a week for dinner. But we've had to squeeze each little kernel out of the soft husk so he can chew up and swallow them without choking. He eats them much faster than we can squeeze, and it's a fun game to see if we can keep ahead of him.
The other night he was busy eating something else, so I decided to get a head start on his corn and built up quite a pile of squeezed corn bits on my plate. As I turned toward him to give him his first bite, I see a pile of "unsqueezed" corn on his tray. Cheryl says, "Oh didn't I tell you? He's eating the corn whole now. You don't need to squeeze anymore." She could have told me 50 squeezes earlier. I had to eat the squeezed corn myself. Home Alone 2.
News alert. Cheryl has actually left home WITHOUT the baby for more than a few minutes. In fact, it was for over an hour. It was her turn to go to the dentist.
You'd think that after 10 months I would know how to keep him alive for an hour or so, but Cheryl felt she had to run through a whole list of do's and don'ts. It's not like I'm a pediatrician and father of three or anything. Later on I mentioned to Cheryl that I haven't had any good alone time for a while. Like, just a few hours to hang out by myself and do whatever I wanted. Note to self. Try to REALLY think things through before you say anything to your wife about wanting some time for yourself. Cheryl proceeded to list the many times in that last year where I'd gotten some time without the kids. There's golf, surfing, hunting, Star Wars Episode II, golf, surfing, Lord of the Rings, surfing, men's church weekend retreat, you get the picture. Then she proceeded to list the ONE and ONLY time she'd ever done something alone without a kid . . . . . her trip to the dentist. 
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