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!