At long last after two failed attempts to bake a carrot cake I’ve finally done it. The frosting wasn’t that good but otherwise the texture of the cake was great and it was very tasty. All I have to do now is bake one for Thursday.

Now back to the birthday boy. I feel so excited that baby Hassan is doing like 5-10 steps all on his own, but I’m not ready to call him a toddler because he’s still not toddling around yet. He still didn’t even give up on crawling around and now he’s doing a backward crawl too, which is interesting, don’t snakes do that? He still walks around the table many times and swings himself from table to table like tarzan, but it’s his only way of learning how to go around so I should not interfere and let him explore around.  

Another thing I’ve noticed is that my baby started to climb down the stairs or bed by turning around, going feet first instead of head first, I guess he learned his lesson after falling off the bed. I haven’t taught him any baby signs yet but he’s doing a lot of pointing he taught himself that especially when he wants something and he shakes his head from side to side when he’s in denial. I think he made a new sound last week, he said ’nada.’ Say my name, say my name!

As I was feeding him breakfast today I looked at his gums and I saw that his lower side teeth are coming out. Oh no! I’ll be expecting more biting from now on. And yesterday I felt I wanted to scream when I had to change the sheets because baby Hassan wet the bed but I had to wash him up first and he was so sleepy. He didn’t cooperate, but it’s not his fault …

I really feel like a narrator, noting his every step for the past one year. It was fun though!

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