This Blog's Last Post

With the arrival of Corin's baby sister, this will be the last posing on Corin Kilpatrick's Blog. All adventures of Corin and his little sister Abigail can be found at corinandabby.blogspot.com.


Corin, Lola, Aunts Faye and Emily, Uncle Matt, Dmitri and I went to Ohio to visit my family for Memorial Day. Corin had a blast playing in the sprinkler and taking walks around in the sunshine. We all had a great time eating, playing games and laughing.
At home Corin continues to improve on his walking skills, but his body is bearing the marks of his hard learning curve. He fell outside and got a big bruise/scrap on his forehead, and then the next day fell inside and busted open his lip. But he is getting more confident and is now able to take a few steps backwards when he needs to. He is also regular crawling now, which was one of the goals of the First Steps physical therapy program. They still haven't started seeing him yet, and by the time they get around to it he is going to have crossed everything off of the list on his own.
Our neighborhood pool has opened up now, and Corin goes swimming almost everyday. His buddy John comes over a few times a week and they head down to show off their ripped bods to the laddies at the kiddie pool.

Thanks for following along with Corin and the rest of us. Now head on over to corinandabby.blogspot.com to continue to keep up with the family.

Crusin' for a brusin'

Corin continues to improve on his walking. He still hasn't met with the First Steps physical therapy folks, but he has decided that he is tired of waiting for them and will just figure it out on his own. This advancement couldn't come soon enough for Kristi, since she says it feels like this new baby is going to fall out any second. This past Sunday she was as far along as Corin was when he was born, so we are in uncharted waters here.
But Kristi and I will sit about 3-6 feet apart from each other and Corin will walk back and forth between us. Then sometimes we will be sitting watching him and he will just decide that there is somewhere he wants to go and will string about 8 steps together to get there. Kristi said she was in the kitchen today and turned to see Corin walking around the corner and coming towards her. So he's getting more comfortable with it. I guess that means it is time to child-proof the house.
We've only been able to get short clips of him walking...he'll do it a lot until we get the camera out. Once he sees the camera, all he wants to do is try to grab it. We'll keep working on it.
Corin's buddy John came over today. They played in the pool together and Corin pushed him around the house in his Cozy Coupe.

First Steps

I know I look like a tool, but the boy is cute.










This boy LOVES blackberries.


Eating his first pancake breakfast.

The day after our last post Corin took his first steps! I was out of town and Kristi was with a group of friends and he took a couple steps on his own. She said that he may have taken more but all of the ladies started screaming and clapping and that distracted him a he fell over. He has taken a few more since then for other people, but not really for Kristi or I.
He had a meeting with a group called First Steps, which is a program that helps kids who are behind in different areas. They do a lot of work with babies who were premature. They recommended that Corin get a little physical therapy to help him learn to walk a little better. When he stands and walks along the couch, he bears most of his weight on the inner edge of his feet. That puts a lot of stress on his feet and knees. This causes him to try and walk on his toes, which relieves most of that pressure. They also want him to 'regular crawl' instead of 'Army crawling' which will help him develop more core strength which will help his overall mobility. We have heard wonderful things about this program (our doctor used it with her kids and can't say enough good things about it). It is supposed to have fast results, which is good, because this kid has got places that he wants to go. So we are looking forward to being able to help him on his mission to find everything electronic in the house and then push the buttons and yank the wires.
We also had a little One Year photo session on his birthday, and got those pictures back. Enjoy.

One Year Old!

Playing in the cat house.



Holding his own bottle. A rare sight...even though he can easily do it, he would rather sit back and let you do the work.


Sleeping with the cats.









Corin just turned one year old! It is hard to believe.
His development continues. He still doesn't "regular crawl", but he will "Army crawl" to get where he wants to go. Technically, that checks the "crawling" box, but it is crazy that he will spin from sitting into a standard crawling position, and then drop down to his belly to pull himself along the floor. He doesn't even do that too often, since all he really wants to do is walk. He loves to hold onto our fingers and run around the house. Slightly less popular is him holding himself up on the couch and walking from one end to the other. He had also just started to walk around the house holding onto his walker and moving on his own. He gets a kick out of it and with a little more practice he should be able to do it with slightly less adult supervision.
A couple weeks ago Corin, mommy and Grandma took a trip to St. Louis to see her family. Corin was a hit (as always) and had a very good time playing on the piano (sweet, sweet music).
Corin's birthday party was a lot of fun. Pop, Lola, Grandma, his aunts, uncle and cousin came up to the house to celebrate. He enjoyed his birthday dinner of turkey burger and Mac-n-Cheese. The then really enjoyed his birthday cake. He very rarely eats anything sweeter than fruit, and he took full advantage of the opportunity. He got some wonderful birthday gifts, including his first car, an outdoor swing, summer clothes and his own copy of Where the Wild Things Are (which was my copy, then Faye's copy, then Emily's copy).

Happy Easter!

Corin has been going through some changes lately. Last week he started another round of serious teething, which was giving him a fever and causing some major fussiness. But thankfully it seems that has passed. On the plus side, he has been getting more mobile. He still doesn't regularly pull himself up from sitting, but if you stand him up against the couch or windowsill he will hang on with both hands and walk from one end to the other. Just the other day he started making the switch from one piece of furniture to the next. He is ready to move around on his own and this is certainly getting him closer.
Corin got to have his Easter pictures taken with some real baby ducks and chicks. I'm pretty sure that he enjoyed it more than they did once he tried to pull one of their legs off.
We had a great Easter with the family. We all met out at Pop and Lola's house and luckily the Easter Bunny had come out there, because he failed to stop by our house (but I'm sure he'll come by next year). We had a very relaxing and enjoyable day, just hanging out, eating and walking around the woods.