Brady is Walking!

This post is pretty belated since Brady has been slowly starting to take steps here and there for a little over a month now, but it was always hard to get on video b/c he never wanted to walk on command. ;)  The first video below is from back at the beginning of August. This was very first time I'd ever seen him attempt to take steps, stumble/go down, and then actually get back up again to keep trying to take steps. Up until then, if he went down he would immediately revert to crawling.

 

 

 

And this next video below is from this past weekend at the park. As you can tell from the video, if he really wants to get somewhere his main mode of transportation is still crawling! But he's made a lot of progress walking in a month's time.
 

 

 

Things I love about Brady at this age: his high chair faces our back patio & he loves watching the hummingbirds come to the hummingbird feeder as he eats, he waves and says hi all the time but it sounds more like "hiya," he holds my phone up to his ear and says "hiya," he blows kisses, he starts dancing every time music starts playing, and he will come throw himself in my lap or throw himself on the carpet/on a pillow if he wants to start playing or wrestling. I took him to storytime with Hadley earlier this week, and it was the first time I let him sit on the floor {as opposed to me wearing him in the carrier or him sitting in the stroller} and he wanted to start crawling. I kept trying to pull him back, but he wasn't having any of that. So I thought I'd let him go to see where he would go/what he would do. He crawled all the way to the front of the storytime rug until he spotted Hadley and pulled himself up on her. Hadley was too engrossed in the story to really pay him any attention, so he started throwing himself in her lap. ;)  It was such a sweet moment to witness! He blew past all the kids and went right to his sister, sometimes I still think he's such a little baby--I didn't know that out of a crowd of kids he could find his people, but he sure could!

And as I mentioned in my last post, Brady is officially done nursing at bedtime! It was such an easy transition! I have a {solo!!} trip planned to go home in February to visit my sister & her new baby{!!!}, so the long-term goal will be to have Brady completely weaned by then. But for right now, it's just easier to nurse him throughout the day.

And here's a few Brady pictures just because:

{is he not the most beautiful baby in the whole world?!}

 

 

 {at the library}

 

{stirring up something good!} 

{talking on his sister's toy cell phone}