Big Boy Charlie

Charlie pulls himself up on everything.  This is his first time ever pulling himself up in his bed.  He was mad when I left him to get the camera, but was way happy I was taking his picture.  He usually cooperates with pictures; I think it is because he likes the flash.  The only thing is that Charlie now stands and sits in his bed instead of lying down and it is harder for him to go to sleep for naps.  One quick side story.  One time Charlie was trying to stand up, but one of his legs slipped off the mattress and out in between the bars so when I went in to get him I saw him holding on to the top wanting to let go but he just couldn't/wouldn't since he would fall on his back because his leg was through the bars.

 If you look closely you can see Charlie's next tooth coming in.  Is he teething with this tooth?  Nope, it doesn't even bother him.  Charlie has an unbelievable pain tolerance.

 Speaking of pain tolerance, here is another great example.  Charlie bashed his eyelid on the corner of my night stand.  Cried for no more than five seconds out of surprise but the second Daddy made a silly face he was over the trauma of it all.  We thought that he would at least stop rubbing that eye when he got tired because it hurt or that he would cry from it, but nope, doesn't even bother him.  He makes me feel like a wuss since I scraped up one of my knees pretty badly last week and then got 11 mosquito bites the other day and have been murmuring about them.  I need to learn a lesson from Charlie.

Speaking of learning from Charlie I learned a good spiritual lesson from him the other day.  Charlie had been playing by the side of our bed while we were reading in bed.  Charlie decided that he was through playing and needed a nap.  He sat there just crying waiting for us to pick him up and cuddle him.  Charles reached out his hands and said, "Come here Charlie."  Charlie is pretty good at responding and coming when we call, but Charlie was in the depths of despair and refused to move.  He was too caught up in his own pity to realize that Charles was trying to help him if he would just crawl a foot or two.  As I watched this scene unfold I thought about how in the scriptures that the Lord's hand is always stretched out to us, we just need to move a foot or two to take hold and he will help us.  But at times we are too caught up in self pity to even see that the Lord is there to help us.  As I watch Charlie I have been able to see that the relationship between a baby and his parents is very similar to that of humans and God.  I am trying to learn from Charlie about the childish things that I do so that I can be better.

On a slightly less spiritual note, Charlie got a hold of my scriptures and took out some of 1st Samuel.    Poor Samuel will never be the same after I put him back in.  I am sure one day Charlie will enjoy the scriptures for more than just ripping up.  The funny, or not so funny thing is that I heard a Charlie playing with something that I couldn't really identify.  I ignored the sound.  It continued.  I eventually looked over and right then he ripped out a bit of Samuel.