Taking big steps... almost.

Lincoln is no longer content to stand up next to his toy basket or the coffee table or holding on to one of us, he is interested in moving, and he just started taking a step yesterday. He's has no ability to balance on his own, nor the coordination to actually walk, but with the progress that he's been making lately with figuring things out, who knows how soon that will come. Jenn has really been working with him lately on feeding himself. Last week, he wouldn't put a Cheerio in his mouth (ironic, because he put everything else in his mouth!).

Flashback: Our trip to Tilghman Island in the Chesapeake Bay, 2005. This is the chapel at the U.S. Naval Academy

But this week, he's putting Cheerios, Puffs and peaches in his mouth (pinching with the thumb and index finger has only taken a few days to coordinate!), and while bananas are still a bit to slippery, he's been working on them.

Jenn is at work today and tomorrow (she switched from Monday & Tuesday this week because of Grandma Paulette's travel schedule) and that leaves Lincoln with me today! It's going to be a busy day for us today because work was very busy for me yesterday afternoon/evening. My staff was 100% awesome during the busy afternoon, making things go as smoothly as possible. Between a dog with urinary obstruction, an anorexic cat with an abscess under it's chin, a persistently vomiting cat, another persistently vomiting cat, another anorexic cat... you get my drift... (I felt like Elise in the ER!) I had to stay late for some surgeries, and need to release them today. That means Lincoln gets to go to work with me and help me with the releases! What fun!

The snow has almost completely melted away. The only piles left are what's on the shady part of the deck, and what's left of the big pile out by the mailbox that the plows pushed up against it. On top of that, it's raining. You can imagine that things are pretty wet and that the dogs' feet are pretty muddy when the come back in the house.