The Little Toddler

Phew! May has been such a busy month! First of all, it seems like everyone, including us, has a birthday in May so we've been paryting it up baby style EVERY weekend this month and finishing out with a grand finale this Memorial day weekend with 3 baby parties and 2 memorial day bbqs! But we are not complaining, we are thankful that we have such great friends that want to include us as part of their birthdays. J has been loving it. It is really funny though how once you have a baby your social calendar seems to grow!

On a really exciting note....he's walking :) So the day before his birthday party, May 14 to be exact, he took his first steps in the evening. And I cried. lol. I was so excited for him, because he was excited with himself! He kept taking a few steps and giggling, and then taking a few steps and giggling and collasping on us. And now, well he is just trying it all the time. He is getting ALOT better now, so I snapped this quick video yesterday, of our little toddler.

For me, walking is huge because it opens up a whole new world of possibilites! We can go to the park again (because for awhile all he wanted to do was crawl in the mulch, yuck) and we could get him his first pair of shoes! Last week, we went to the ever famous Stride Rite and got him his first pair of shoes. We opted for sandals because of the summer. He loves them!

We practiced walking around some to break them in :)

And in case you're wondering why he has little pantyhose sockies with these, for the first time use they recommended them so that he wouldn't get blisters :) He doesn't wear them anymore...haha.

So now that he's toddling, I'm expecting a whole world of new adventures in the Wood Household :)