Announcing my littlest...

and earliest WALKER!

Drew is walking a lot more in the last couple of days.  It is only a matter of time before he is walking everywhere.  Before he was (rarely) taking between 1 and 4 steps if we really, really encouraged him to do so, and then he would dive for us.  Now he is walking to people of his own volition and without the diving at the end.  We are catching him walking more times per day than I can count.  The first time he walked well and deliberately was in the kitchen during breakfast a few days ago.  He was walking between Hannah and Genna to beg bites/sips of their breakfast (bagel and yogurt drink).  He had breakfast hours before they did, but I may have mentioned before, this boy can eat.  You can't eat in front of him without sharing.  Since he isn't saying or signing "eat" or "more," his whines were going ignored and he decided to get some food he would kick it up a notch and walk.  It worked, and he was well rewarded!   My left hip is very excited at the prospect of a walking 23 lb baby!  Walking is a much more exciting milestone than crawling because walking doesn't increase the trouble they can get into, but does increase their independence a bit.  When a relatively immobile baby starts crawling you are happy that they are developing, but then the craziness starts and before you know it they are pulling up and really into trouble.  So, "Yay" for walking!