UP

Cal has been exploring his vocals a lot lately and lately loves the letter P. Yesterday he was doing his normal "chatting" when he put together a u and a p: UP! No, he has no idea what it means, but he says it all the time (non-stop!), so I took a short little video of it. Not sure if I would qualify it as his first word, but it's fun to watch it get put together!

What do you think? Is he saying UP??

http://gallery.mac.com/cewilliamson#100344

Time to take down the mobile....

Mr. Cal was supposed to be taking a nap the other afternoon and I was letting him "cry it out" (something we are STILL doing on a daily basis!). He was doing his thing, screaming like there was a monster in his room, when all of a sudden, it fell silent. I was listening on the monitor and thought he finally gave in and went to sleep. Then I heard the mobile music playing....I didn't put the mobile on. I started kind of panicking that someone was up there (I am a worrier, what can I say?!). When I looked at the video monitor, Cal had ahold of the mobile and was lassoing the little dogs around his head, propelling them around and around, making the music play. It was too cute.

Here is a picture from the video monitor (hard to see with the lines), but you can see he has ahold of the mobile....

I took this one when I went in to get the mobile out of his hands. He was having a blast:
This is a result of me taking the mobile away:
And this is a result of all of the crying:

PHEW!