Nathan Learning to Walk!

A week and a half ago, Nathan totally surprised me by taking 4 steps! Matt had said before he ha has seen him take a step. Then at small group, the night before the day he showed me what he could do, Mandi said he took 2 steps towards her. I was like, "I've never seen this!" Craig was laughing saying that he is probably walking all over the apartment when I go back to my room and then sits down quick when I come out :)

So on Wednesday (9/14) after small group when I saw he was standing I figured I'd see what everyone was talking about it. I said, "Come to mommy, Nathan." To my surprise, he did! He took four steps, I screamed, and he fell down! ha ha. I think I scared him I was so ecstatic.

Matt just loves that this milestone is recorded with a brush in his hand :) ha ha. He loves carting my brush around. But when Matt is home he ends up with something more manly in his hands...like a tool of some kind :) Or a credit card, like in this video of him taking 8 steps. Not that a credit card is manly...the point is, the boy likes to cart things around with him. This video was the weekend after his 4 steps.

And here's a more recent video of him a few days later showing you more steps, a wave and his "head stand". He waves constantly these days. He thinks it is so fun. He waves, "hi", "bye', "goodnight" and for no apparent reason. When I am trying to get him dressed after a bath and he runs away from me, he will pause at the door to wave first, and then crawl away :)

Last night, Friday, before Josh & Amber came over, Matt had him walking down the hallway and counted 27 steps! It's so fun to watch him learn this new skill. I love watching him wobble around :) This is such a fun stage. But I'm not anxious for him to leave crawling behind yet! See how cute he is when he crawls? This is from a few weeks ago...when football season started!!! Welcome back, football! :)