'Niall'stones

1 day:

• first explosive diarrhea all              NO PIC AVAILABLE ;)
  over daddy        
  

 
1 month: 

• first bath
• first Thanksgiving and Christmas
• first big snowstorm (24 inches!)
• first doctors appt

2 months:

• first New Years
• baby yoga classes
• first grocery store outing
• baptism
• gave up on breastfeeding :(
• first smile

3 months:

• mmmm...ga!  (your favorite noise to make)
• first play date with another baby
• first superbowl
• second big snowstorm (another 30 inches!)
• first time out to a restaurant
• first time sleeping through the night
• first laugh
• first time finding your hands
• rolled over from tummy to back

4 months:

• St. Paddy's day parade
• starting to grasp objects
• mommy's first time leaving you for the weekend
• first time finding your feet
• first family vacation in South Carolina
• first time at the beach, in the ocean (just the toes)
• first time on a plane
• first Easter
• rolled over from back to tummy

5 months:

•  first time at the zoo
• starting rice cereal
• first time at the park
• first time in the baby swing
• first teeth (2 in the bottom)
• first time eating from a spoon
• first mother's day, went to the park

6 months:

• sitting up with hands supporting
• eating fruit and vegetables
• first time in the pool
• first time fully in the ocean
• scooting
• first father's day, hangin with daddy and grandpop
• holding your bottle by yourself (what a life saver!)
• first swim class
• officially became stronger than mommy 

7 months:

• sitting up with no support
• crawling
• clicking noises, lots of babbling
• pulling up to standing
• saying dada and mama
• first bbq (4th of July)
• started crawling up the stairs (time for safety gates)
• really interested in hands (making Napolean Dynamite butterfly gestures)

8 months:

• first intentional high 5
• holding his own cup (not necessarily drinking much out of it, though)
• cruising (along the couch)
• first intentional clapping
• first time in the umbrella stroller (not sure why I haven't used it yet)
• playing "bongos" on everything (chairs, old cans, etc)
• turning pages in books when we read

9 months:

• first time up a flight of stairs
• first time purposely clapping
• first flu shot- ouchie!
• first time standing with no support
• sharing cup and spoon with mommy & daddy
• understands and enjoys chasing us around the house 
• starting to take interest in stuffed animals

10 months:

• may have said "dog" (on purpose)???
• clapping on command- any time someone else claps or finishes speaking/ singing
• first time going to a friend's birthday party 
• first taste of a real human treat (birthday party ice cream!)
• first festival- Taste of Bethesda (and got another taste of ice cream)
• first pumpkin patch and hayride
• starting to learn sign language 
• top 2 teeth pop through

11 months:

• saying "dad" & "dog"
• loves playing chase around the house (the crawling version)
• favorite toy is a cell phone
• slam dunked a basketball in a kid's hoop
• first Halloween!  Went trick or treating as a martian
• starting to eat with utensils
• 2 more bottom teeth
• very much understands the concept of shaking head "no" (and does it to almost everything)
• beginning of temper tantrums

12 months:

• first steps (but not walking)
• saying dad, dog & "dis!" (meaning "This!  This is what I want!"), but still no "mama"
• starting to climb on furniture (trying)
• starting to understand hide & seek (come find mommy behind the curtain)
• favorite toy is the vacuum
• enjoys riding on wagon and push toys (but mostly enjoys pushing them)
• First Birthday party- pirates!
• Trip to NYC
• pix with Santa, Christmas (1st where you somewhat knew what was going on)
• 2 more top teeth