We (almost) have a walker!
Corwin is trying really hard to turn into a toddler before my eyes. He's not quite there yet, but he looks and acts less like a baby every day.
He's now toddling anywhere from 4-6 steps at a time to get from Point A to Point B. And he's defaulting to attempting to walk more and more often (instead of staring at Point B like he's thinking about walking and then getting down and crawling instead). He often stumbles after a step or two and crawls the rest of the way. But he's getting really really close!
He has started to do more with his toys than just chew on them and chase them around the room, too. He's starting to be able to nest his cups. For example, the other day I handed him all the cups nested together except for the largest one, and I handed him the largest one separately. He successfully put the stack of nested cups into the largest cup. He's starting to try to stack things more often in general (as opposed to just knocking them over) -- trying to set cups on top of each other and the like.
He's also enjoying having books read to him. He'll grab a book and come drop it in one of our laps, and then stand next to us waiting to be picked up. When I pick him up and then pick up the book to read to him he bounces and grins happily. :) He's even helping to turn the pages sometimes. And he wants us to read the same books over and over again. I read him "Five Little Pumpkins" 2 1/2 times before work today, and "Halloween makes me batty" 3 times right after I got home from work yesterday. Not sure why he likes the Halloween books so much, but there it is. Guess he takes after his mommy. To be fair, he's been asking to read his Colors book and the Dr. Seuss ABC book a fair bit as well (though the Dr. Seuss is long enough that he often loses interest partway through).
"Z....z....Z...What begins with Z? I do. I'm a Zizzer Zazzer Zuzz, as you can plainly see."
He's now toddling anywhere from 4-6 steps at a time to get from Point A to Point B. And he's defaulting to attempting to walk more and more often (instead of staring at Point B like he's thinking about walking and then getting down and crawling instead). He often stumbles after a step or two and crawls the rest of the way. But he's getting really really close!
He has started to do more with his toys than just chew on them and chase them around the room, too. He's starting to be able to nest his cups. For example, the other day I handed him all the cups nested together except for the largest one, and I handed him the largest one separately. He successfully put the stack of nested cups into the largest cup. He's starting to try to stack things more often in general (as opposed to just knocking them over) -- trying to set cups on top of each other and the like.
He's also enjoying having books read to him. He'll grab a book and come drop it in one of our laps, and then stand next to us waiting to be picked up. When I pick him up and then pick up the book to read to him he bounces and grins happily. :) He's even helping to turn the pages sometimes. And he wants us to read the same books over and over again. I read him "Five Little Pumpkins" 2 1/2 times before work today, and "Halloween makes me batty" 3 times right after I got home from work yesterday. Not sure why he likes the Halloween books so much, but there it is. Guess he takes after his mommy. To be fair, he's been asking to read his Colors book and the Dr. Seuss ABC book a fair bit as well (though the Dr. Seuss is long enough that he often loses interest partway through).
"Z....z....Z...What begins with Z? I do. I'm a Zizzer Zazzer Zuzz, as you can plainly see."