Walking along...

So, Oak took his first unassisted steps about 6 weeks ago...but no one would believe me, because of course he wouldn't do it again in front of anyone...and it would only be one, two, three, or one, two, and then splat on his face:) Then 4 days before his birthday, he decided he finally wanted to crawl to get across the room instead of having to walk the perimeter along the walls and furniture to get to where he wanted to (probably the latest crawler in the history of mankind:). He does what we call the "wounded soldier" crawl, one leg up and one leg dragging behind as leverage. He now moves pretty quickly using this method. The day after he started to crawl, we were at the mall just walking around. I was holding his hand and walking as usual, and all of a sudden he let go and took about 10 steps to the next bench. Then he did it again to the next pole. From then on, Oak walks alone when he feels like it (dependant of course on the terrain, time of day, mood of Oak, the alignment of all the stars...ha ha:) Now, on most days, he switches between crawling to one spot, holding my hand to another location, using furniture to the next pit stop and then taking his own steps for the final leg. It is so cute and quite hilarious to watch him waddle around. Our little guy...growing up too quickly!!

This is video of him walking on the "mall" day once we got home and showed daddy (we'll have to get some new video because he has gotten quite a bit better in the last 3 weeks).