Someone told me that a child moves from 'baby' to 'toddler' when they start walking. If that is true, I think I can now say that I have a toddler! Cooper has started walking!
We are very excited and a bit relieved. Jason is relieved because he started walking before he turned one (he is 11 months)... his reasoning? 'We told him he had to walk by 1 so he wouldn't be behind other kids, so it's good that he listened.' My relief? He will not need to be carried quite so much!
I bought him a pair of shoes to celebrate his achievement. Figured that with the cold weather and him wanting to walk around, shoes are now a must. I spent $55 on one tiny little pair! I think they are good ones though... they haven't bothered him or affected his walking at all.
Cooper has also suddenly connected the waving action with saying goodbye, again to our delight :) So cute to see him communicating in this way.
Just lately his vocabulary has reduced to pretty much nothing but 'da da da da'. It seems that he was simply concentrating too hard on learning to walk to put any effort into words. Today he suddenly re-introduced the consonants 'n', 'm' and 'b' back into his 'vocab'. I'm very happy to be hearing 'mumum' again after so long of nothing but 'dad' :D
Personally, I think they're a toddler when they can throw monster tanties :)
ReplyDeleteAhh cool. How exciting for you all! He'll be able to get much more attention now too.
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