These boots were made for walking.

Theo took his first steps about 6 weeks ago and since then, he's been gaining more and more confidence. The past few days, he's a walking machine! He can walk across his whole room and almost all the way across the whole living/dining area at our home. He's also doing a ton of un-coaxed walking, where he just screws up his courage and goes for it. The look of happiness and determination on his face is probably the cutest thing I have ever seen. 

When he decides he's going to walk somewhere instead of crawl, he basically aims for whatever stationary object he can find. Sometimes, that's one of the dogs. The dogs that aren't always, well, stationary or willing to be a landing pad for a fledgling toddler. This has led to some near face plants and lots of funny scenes where one of the dogs tries to get away while Theo holds on for dear life. He'll learn, though, and the dogs for all their faults are super patient with their young master.

In sleep news, glory, glory. Last night was the best night on record. He went down a bit early, as his afternoon nap wasn't great thanks to an impromptu visit from Gramma (which was great!). Asleep at 7:35 pm, cried out for a second at 5:00 am and then woke for good, happily, at 6:30 am! We are consistently getting at least 8 hour stretches at night and he goes down without even a peep or needing us to stay in the room. We are even feeling confident enough to go on a date. You know, if we had a sitter close by.

He has 4 teeth now, two on the bottom and the top two have just busted through. His favorite thing to do with these new teeth? Grind them. God in heaven, this is the worst sound ever. I know it's a phase, but I hope it ends soon. 

He also has two official words, "mama" and "yeah." He's said "mama" for awhile, but the "yeah" is new. Usually in response to, "do you want to eat?" I didn't think we said "yeah" a lot, but we must!

It's so fun watching all this development. He's definitely becoming more toddlerish every day.