Our almost-walking and talking little guy!

This past week or so has been a big one for our little guy. Each day his balance gets better and better and he can now stand for 2 or 3 seconds all by himself! He is wanting like crazy to walk and he will lunge forward to try to get to where he wants to be. He is getting really good at walking while holding onto a hand or two - pretty soon he will be taking off!

Also, in the past few days we have noticed his babbling turning into the beginnings of real words! I was rocking him at bedtime the other night. He heard his Daddy brushing his teeth in the bathroom, looked in that direction and got a HUGE smile on his face, then he looked at me and whispered "Da da!" We are pretty sure he knows what this means! Then, last night we were at my parents' for dinner and we were celebrating Jonathan's birthday - James saw the balloons hanging from the ceiling and got all excited, pointed his little finger and said "buh-ooohn!" (or something close to that - that is my closest approximation in spelling of how he said it...

And here are just some recent pictures of the little man -

playing with toys

reading?

going for a walk with Mommy - check out those nice shoes!

Mommy, let me out!!

showing off his pearly whites

sweet boy

there's that smile!