Baby’s Firsts

Well, we’ve had a lot of baby’s firsts.  Baby’s first car trip.  He was about 6 months old at the time.  Piece of cake.  We drove from Florida to southern Virginia, a total of 8 hours across 2 days.  By means of comparison, that’s a moderately long day on the bike.  But, we did it, in 2 days.  We’ve learned to plan in lots of contingency.  On this trip we also attended baby’s first wedding, and on the way home we had baby’s first fever while traveling.  We went to the doctor when we got home, (I think we drove straight there), got some medicine, and that was that.  Baby’s first house party.  We started those really early.  Its actually much easier when he couldn’t move around much, because everyone wanted to hold him, so there was always someone there to entertain him.  We really had to dial that back when he got to be about a year old, and could really move around. Baby’s first solid food.  This little guy had a mouth full of teeth at a very early age.  The real excitement was really just relief that he ate it without choking.  I was nervous about him choking for weeks, (and as much food as he stuffs in his mouth, I am still nervous about it!) Baby’s first pontoon boat ride.  Baby’s first plane ride.  Just last week we went to the post office to get Baby’s first passport, as we plan for baby’s first trip oversea’s.  I guess the main point of this post is, life goes on.  But it certainly is different, and man do you take a lot of stuff.  I think nothing has been quite as exciting as baby’s first steps.  Can’t wait to see which first comes next.