Walking and Talking!

Within the past two weeks, one year old Carter has started growing up and changing so fast! He is now saying new words all the time... Tree, gate, ball, egg, dog, pizza (that's an adorably tough one that comes out really fast sounding like peee-sa), and our personal favorite "out!" accompanied by bouncing and dancing as he tries to escape from his crib. :)

And today... he officially started walking (or taking more than a few accidental steps while falling toward the ground!). He has shown little interest in walking, besides pushing toys around, but at the park yesterday he watched as a bunch of boys ran by and got so excited that he took 3 wobbly, wild steps without even meaning to! He fell, looked at me excitedly and turned around to start trying again. By this morning, he had figured it out! And our morning has been all about walking, crashing, and lots of clapping and cheering...and now a nice long nap. This kid is awesome.