The past few weeks have seen a number of milestones. For one, Jayden has begun crawling, which has seriously decreased my ability to do any work during his waking hours. For another, he has learned to speak his first word, dog, though if he were telling this story he would say that I am the one doing the learning. His greatest frustration is that Sean and I act like we do not understand his perfect baby speak.
The third milestone is not exactly Jayden-related, but it explains the lag since my last post. This past week, I submitted and defended my dissertation proposal. It was the most challenging document I have ever written, but my committee is awesome, and I passed the defense without needing to make any major revisions. Now, I move on to the most important PhD project, the dissertation, and since that deadline is rather distant (spring 2015), I can also resume blog-writing without feeling guilty about it. I have a couple of drafts that I hope to finish within the next several days.
To keep your interest until then, I thought I would share a new picture.
This is the window in Jayden’s room, and it looks out onto the street. Now that he is crawling, I am learning what places in the house he likes best. Early favorites include the dogs’ food and water dishes (yuck!) and this window, where he can peer out at joggers, our neighbors trimming yards, and garbage trucks hoisting cans into the air. Now and then, when someone passes by, he will pound on the glass and call out (in his perfect baby speak, of course). This little boy has the whole world waiting for him, and I am glad to see how eager he is to be out in it.