Oh boy! He is walking!!!

This week Cole has been standing up by himself! Every time he stands he'll look at me and make his "Look at me, I'm so big!" face....I LOVE that face :) The other day we were all upstairs and just for fun Elaine wanted to see if she could get Cole to walk to me (reminder: Elaine was the one who was with us the night Lucy learned to walk!) and he did--TWO STEPs-- then fell into me at the end. Well, this week he's been taking one or two steps and then falling down. Which is pretty big, because a week or two ago, as soon as we let go of his hands he would lower himself to the floor (so slowly that you wondered why we would walk, he has pretty good control of that sitting down motion). Well, tonight Cole walked somewhere from 8-10 steps without falling!!! He didn't even look unbalanced (which if you've seen Cole walk while holding hands you would think this is amazing....somehow he falls even while holding hands!)
I'm excited for him. ...

Do you just love this face?!

I'm little nervous of the things this opens up for us (the fits that will most likely ensue for wanting to walk everywhere all the time) But I'm excited because this means he will get to start walking after Lucy! Yes, he gets around just fine and crawls pretty fast to keep up. But you know, walking is just exciting!!!

 He's playing with one of those pom-pom tupperware toys

This is his concentrating face! One of my favorite faces :)

He makes it whenever he is focusing really hard on something

...like reading a book with Auntie Celecta...

Sheesh. This kid is already 11 months old. I don't like how fast time is going by. How could almost a year already have gone by? I guess my baby is no longer a baby. 

Cole UPDATE

-He can go up the stairs and then back down backwards! Going backwards is a new development. He used to try to go down frontwards....that doesn't work so well :)

-He LOVES animal books, and loves to read. We went to the Zoo yesterday (I forgot my camera so I'll have to bum pictures off of my friends) and he was in heaven! He was ooo-ing and aahh-ing and roaring the whole time.

-tries to climb up everything and is pretty successful most of the time. 

-Likes food. A LOT. he has recently started crying/yelling for more between each bite. Hopefully this doesn't last too long! 

-He will go up to Lucy and grab her arm or clothes or something and 'scream'. It not really a scream, but it's the exact same sound she makes when she doesn't want him to play with something she has... yeah, he is learning a lot from her...the good and the not so good :)

-Knocks on the doors that lead upstairs all the time. I must not be very exciting :) A lot of his favorite things are upstairs....people, toys and baths...how can I beat that?

-Hates having his diaper changed...one of my friends quoted her husband on facebook saying, "Every time I change Emma I feel like I'm changing a wild squirrel" (or something to that effect). I think of that every time I change Cole. I'm surprised the diapers are actually on the right way by the end of it all!

-He likes to brush his teeth, but doesn't like it when it's mommy's turn to do it. 

-He really likes babies! One of our good friends just had a baby a few weeks ago and while we were over visiting, Cole couldn't stay away from their little boy! He was gentle -at first- and just wanted to follow me around the whole time I held the baby! He wasn't even jealous, like he gets when I hold Lucy :)