More walking, New molar, New words, Fun weekends

Bud is taking more steps every day! He's trying so hard to walk, he is now taking off on his own without us having to coax him to let go and walk. I think the most steps he has taken is about 8, and you could tell he was really concentrating on his balance! Most of the time he gets so excited he takes a few steps and leans forward and falls.

He started getting a new molar behind one of his 12 mth. molars and was in quite a mood Sunday night. But after some Tylenol he was fine, went to bed at 9:30 and slept until 9:45 Monday morning! Plus he took his two normal naps at 11 and 3. It's getting harder to put him to bed because he doesn't have a set bedtime right now. We've been letting him stay up so that when the time changes he won't be going to bed at 7:00. I try to put him to bed at 9:00 but he isn't sleepy and starts to wail so we play some more and then I try again at 9:30 and it still takes at least 15 minutes of crying and more milk for him to fall sleep.

Bud is up to 24 words/sounds. The newest words are night night, wa wa (water), E (eat), and TD (name of stuffed football guy that uncle CPT gave him), and as of last night uh-uh (as in what mama says instead of no).

We plan to trick-or-treat at family members' houses Sunday night and Bud is going as a bull calf. We don't have our pumpkins yet so we'd better get on that this week. We went for a drive and took pictures at a park two weekends ago and this past weekend we celebrated Bud's great-grandpa's 80th birthday so we'll have new pictures up soon. Bud had a good time meeting and playing with his 2nd cousin from Florida. We hope they can play again at Christmas!

A couple more

Tuesday night bud took at least 2 more steps, it may have been 3 or 4. I got him to let go of what he was holding onto and he ran at me! He went so fast I couldn't count his steps. Last night he had been holding onto me and let go and just stood there, then squatted down - he did that twice. I think he is learning a little more independence every day.

One Step at a Time

On Friday BV was able to get Bud to take one step without holding onto anything!! He did it for me when I got home too, and will still take the one step and then lunge at us. As soon as he gets his balance down he'll be taking more steps.

Already October

I can't believe it's October already and Bud will be 13 months old in a few days! We went to the apple orchard again this year and Uncle Zach, Aunt Nicole and Colin joined us. The boys had fun playing with the apples and we got their picture on a huge pumpkin. We look forward to picking out pumpkins at a patch in the next few weeks. As of now Bud is going to be a cow for Halloween. Grandma accidentally grabbed the cow costume and not the dalmation, but Bud makes a really cute bull calf so we might just keep it!

We've been counting the number of words he knows and the number is around 20. Most of the words he pronounces pretty accurately, except diaper is sometimes di di and bottle is ba ba. He can even say Cheerio! He's also very good at sharing things with us, but almost always expects us to give the item back :) And about once a day he stands unassisted but hasn't taken any steps, yet.

He has been playing with cousin Colin a lot lately and they do well together. Bud occasionally runs Colin over, but is getting better at just patting his head instead of hitting. Colin is crawling and pulling himself up now so he'll follow Bud around; it's so cute. Zach and Nicole babysat Bud the other night and the boys just played independently.

We are finally joining a church! If it all works out we will have Bud baptized around Christmas when our families will (hopefully) be in the Midwest.

Bud is also starting to have some separation anxiety. Monday when I left for work he was sobbing and crying out "bye!" which actually sounds like die, so it was kind of a dramatic scene. And when BV left him with Aunt Nicole Bud went to the door, cried a little and patted the door and said Dada. But within a few minutes he's okay.

I should get back to work now, I think that about does it for this update. Later!

KLV :D