"Yay!"

is Silas's first word. :D For the past few weeks, we'll hold his arms up above his head and say, "Yay!!" So, he's been putting his arms up randomly and kind of shouting, but today, he very clearly said, "yay" while throwing his arms up. Oh, how we laughed. It was simply the cutest thing. He's such a smartie-pants.

I realized today that I haven't written about him in awhile. He's such a joy, one of the most cheerful babies I've ever known. He only fusses if he's tired. And man, is he busy. He works very hard at keeping up with his brother.

He's also learning to swing doors open and shut. He's shut himself behind a door more than once, and then we have to open it slowly to shove him out of the way so we can get to him. Little stinker.

His joy has kept me going more than once in the past 2 months.