There were a lot of little signs, but at the time they didn't mean much at all. There were a few moments that made a little more impact and made me really start to wonder. By the time Evan was 2 1/2 I thought, "This has got to add up to something!"
- Evan wasn't the best at sitting up and I felt like I was placing pillows behind him in case he fell over for a couple of months. I attributed his less-than-stellar sitting skills to his weight. The kid was born at 7 lbs. 6 oz., but gained weight like he was training to be a sumo wrestler. At six months he was 26 lbs!
- When it came to crawling, Evan wasn't the least bit interested. When he was ten months old, we visited our friends who had a two year old daughter. When we got home he seemed a bit more inspired to move, but was still stationary. We decided to try and help him along in the crawling process. We enticed him with toys and then graduated to his favorite object, the phone. After a few weeks he would crawl a short distance to get to that phone. We didn't know it at the time, but this would be the first of many occasions when we would have to teach our son things that other children learn naturally.
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