Truman went with us to his first primary election today. We walked down to the old train depot and partook in what we've learned is a pretty important event. For those that don't know, Joe lost a primary election for county attorney by 6 votes. It feels good to expose him to something so important.
Plus, I always say you can't complain if you don't vote. So I guess I can complain now ;).
The last few weeks have been leading up to a giant movement toward, well, movement that occured today. He's been traveling in circles and pushing himself backwards and able to scoot himself to a place so slowly we couldn't decipher how he got where he ended up. But today he scooted in fast-paced motions compared to what he's done before.
We have a mobile child. Joe put him down on a blanket while I edited this video and soon said to me, "the days of putting him down on a blanket are over" as he wrangled him out from under a chair.
Here he is, scooting at 5 days shy of 5 months:
Spellbound baby is halfway here. So I thought I'd post a little update:
We kind of think the baby is a boy. We have no reason for thinking this because we're not finding out the sex ahead of time. But for whatever reasons we find ourselves saying "he is kicking" or "I wonder if he ..." When we do this, we usually recover with "or she," because the baby might be able to hear us now and we don't want to give her a complex if she is a girl.
My mom, niece Elizabeth and friend Amy think its a girl. Feel free to guess for yourself; the odds are great.
As implied above, I can feel the baby kicking now. I started feeling him or her around 16 weeks, but the movement of their little hands and feet are a lot more regular now. Joe even felt the baby the other day, but that was a super-ninja kick.
After the baby is born we will stick their ninja feet in these starfish booties.
In other news, I'm headed to San Diego tomorrow to visit family. I'll be gone for a week.
