Dylan has his first tooth.

Dylan took his first steps while holding Grandpa's hands.

Dylan has learned to say a few new words, including 'ball' (while playing ball) and 'hi' (while pressing the cell phone against his ear). Dylan loves to speak into and listen to the telephone. In fact, he knows how to turn on his parents’ mobile phones and regularly does so. (He also enjoys turning the clothes dryer on and off, though discretely, without speaking.) Dylan still regularly says 'mama', 'dada', 'bye bye', and ‘duck’. He waves ‘bye bye’ when people grab their jackets near a doorway, and he uses the word ‘duck’ to refer to all non-human animals.

Dylan is now climbing sofas and stairs. Applying the lesson of the stairs, he also believes that he can climb flat vertical surfaces, like walls, by lifting one leg onto an imaginary step. Or he believes that he can raise his foot above his own head, onto a ledge that he holds with his hands. Dylan is illustrated below.

Sometimes Dylan will grip the ledge with his hands, keeping one leg raised, bent at the knee, for quite some time, patiently, convinced that eventually his leg will rest upon something solid and helpful, as it does on the steps.

In another sign of his imperfect spatial awareness, Dylan experiences difficulty in attempting to open doors, because his own body gets in the way of the door. The small arrow below shows the path of the door as it strikes Dylan’s body, while the large arrow shows the direction in which Dylan would like to travel. He ends up frustrated, crying.

The astronaut sleeps in his Moon Unit, in preparation for a rendezvous with the Mothership.

Dylan wrote a new song:

"Walking in the garden
Our day has ended as it started
Walking in the garden
Ended as it started"

Dylan in the kitchen

This weekend we put doors on the shelves containing the CDs. This is why:

Dylan has already worked out how to open the doors. Now we need to buy a child lock.

Dylan can operate light switches.

When Daddy ‘burps’ Dylan (i.e., puts Dylan over his shoulder and pats Dylan’s back), Dylan ‘burps’ Daddy back (i.e., pats Daddy’s back in imitation).

Mummy and Daddy think that Dylan can say 'muh muh' (when he wants milk at night), 'dah dah' (when he is about to play with Daddy in the morning), and 'buh buh' (when he is waving goodbye). He no longer says 'Egbo', which used to be his favourite word. We don't know what 'Egbo' means.

Preparing for bathtime

Dylan is crawling properly (as opposed to creeping).