She brought up some birthday presents for Colin, which he loved! Here she is trying to read to him from the soft firefighter book she gave him (he just ripped the book from her hands as I was taking the picture.. he likes it!)
Zoe's stated goal for the visit was to get Colin to walk. She sort of succeeded! She gave him this dinosaur walking toy, which he LOVES. As soon as we had it put together, he stood up and started walking around the house with it like he'd been doing it forever. Seriously, he was backing up, cornering... I couldn't believe he just automatically knew how to do it! I need to get it on video, but someone gets a little camera-shy ... so we'll see if I can get it this week sometime.
He seriously MOVES with this thing... FAST.
He gets the biggest smile as soon as he starts walking with it... he's very proud of himself!
Sometimes he cheats and walks on his knees, but we try to stand him up again.
he goes in the kitchen, bathrooms, family room, around the dining room table - he was all over the house with this thing!
I think the walker gave him some confidence too... right before Zoe was leaving, Colin was standing all on his own, and then took a STEP by himself to grab on to the chair! So we're counting that as his first step - we all saw it!
Colin also had some fun tunnel playtime yesterday. He loves playing "peekaboo", looking inside and then outside the tunnel at dad at the other end.
Then he goes inside and plays peekaboo with me.
HI!
He loves the cornpopper my parents gave him for his birthday, even though he can't walk with it yet. So he just drags it around with him.
He took it inside the tunnel with him. He's a nut.
So, despite the teething and the time change and some fussiness, it was a great weekend with some fun playtime. Hopefully by the next time we have visitors, he'll be running around on his own!
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