"Baby" Steps

This post is extremely overdue, but it seems like when I get a chance to post there is always something that takes precendence (you know, like Tristan's birthday, new sonogram pictures, etc.). Anyways, as you may have noticed from recent pictures, Tristan started walking!

It all started quite awhile back. He has been standing in place without holding onto anything since about mid-September, when he was about 10 1/2 months. When others saw him, they would tell me he'd "be walking any day now", so I kept waiting for him to pick up his feet and go. Apparently, Tristan was pretty content to just stand. He would stand and clap, stand and throw his arms up in the air, stand and wave, and an assortment of other standing "party tricks", but no walking. This went on for a couple of weeks.

Then in early October, he started to take a step or two, but still didn't seem to eager to master this walking thing, he'd rather crawl to his destination...much faster that way. By mid-October he was taking more steps and throughout the month progressed to multiple steps in a row. Each day that went by he would walk more and more and now, he goes everywhere!

He still enjoys crawling occasionally, but he uses his walking more to get him to his final destination and he is getting quite fast at it. He still loves being chased, but now he walks instead of crawls!

I posted some, well, a lot of pics below that begin from around mid-October and go through last week. Enjoy!