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Caden's New Tricks

Over the past 8 months, Caden has been very strict at following the rules. Jenny get's an email every week called "My Baby This Week". In that publication, it will always say something like, "your baby will start trying to roll over" and every time, either that day or the day before, Caden will start to do exactly that. For a long time, I was very concerned. It seems "they" knew exactly what was going on in our house. How did they do this? Were people spying on us?? Are we being monitored by "Big Brother" in an attempt to make sure we conform to the arbitrary social standard so as to avoid the political unrest that is sure to ensue when the people vote me in as Overlord and Grand Pooba.

After much discussion and assurances by Jen that they are not in fact keeping tabs on us through the television, I decided that it was kind of cool that our Baby seemed to be on par in his developmentation. And time after time he has continued to meet the standard. I sometimes wonder if he is reading the email before us and deciding that now is the time to reveal some of the tricks he has been working on. Who knows. But in any case, the trend continues. Today, as Jenny and I are enjoying our New Years Day celebration by eating day old Chinese food and playing some video game where monkeys are trapped in balls (I kid you not.) Caden nonchalantly wanders over to one of our squares and pulls himself up into a standing position. We were in shock. So of course, we immediately.... ran to our computer to see what "My Baby This Week" had to say and sure enough, it says "your baby will start to pull himself up on things." So after pushing him over to see if he would do it again, we decided that maybe we should preserve this moment for all eternity with our digital camera. Below is a quick slideshow of what he did.

Now you might ask, what would cause him to pull himself up all of a sudden? Could it be a deep seated, instinctual desire to walk? Is he trying to better himself by taking that next developmental step so that he can go off to college? And the answer to all these is no. In fact, the reason he pulled himself up was... the playstation was on top of the box. I don't need no DNA test to know this kid is mine. :)

Enjoy the pictures just as we are enjoying Caden.

This ends another installment of - The Mooney Files.


Comments

Anonymous said…
It didn't work. I guess I will have to come over and see Caden show of for me in person.
Erica said…
Do you ever wonder...

If I knew then, what I know now - would I have pulled myself up? Or stayed on the floor?

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