My baby took his first steps....

WITHOUT ME!!!!

While I was off taking D to his gymnastics class this evening, baby J took 3 steps.

So maybe it's the recent lack of sleep combined with all the stress of the uncertain future from our unemployment situation causing me some emotional dysfunction, but bursting into tears probably wasn't the normal reaction to hearing your baby boy turned into a toddler in the rare hour you weren't around him.

I shouldn't be jealous I guess. I did have the joy of changing his first poopy diaper, being the first to be puked on, peed on, wipe his first snotty nose, giving him his first bite of food and being the first to have it spit back at me, and so many other such firsts. So missing one little tiny milestone like first steps shouldn't be a big deal.

I do think though, the hubby should have forgotten to tell me it happened (seeing as he didn't get it on video, how would I ever know?). Or maybe he could have told me tomorrow after a good night's sleep! A little bit of omission would have been forgivable here.

Or maybe not, because if I ever found out, then I'd be mad. Poor guy had no options.

Despite missing it, of course I'm immensely proud of my little man. At 10 months, 3 weeks and 3 days old, (which is 2 months and 1 week and 1 day since after he began crawling. Not that I was really keeping track or anything....) my baby boy took his first few steps!

He'd better do it again tomorrow!