The boy is offiicially a walker.
We decided a few weeks ago that “walking” is being able to launch yourself where you want to go rather than mama and papa putting you up on your feet to walk back and forth between them. By that definition, Guthrie is a walker. Wobbly, true, but he can take a dozen or more steps to get where he wants to be. He now does it all the time without thinking about it, although he still crawls plenty, too.
See a gallery of more photos from around his ten-month birthday.
Today was Christmas just the way we like it: get up to wrestle a happy little boy, open a lot of presents (and eat a lot of paper), have some raspberry waffles from the new waffle iron Mama bought Papa, take a nap (Papa), then spend a couple of hours in the park watching the ducks and the people. After the park, dinner at a friendly diner. The boy had an egg, a banana, and lots of flirting with the waitresses and customers. Then, we tested out the new bathtub toys: a mama duck and three ducklings, four colored boats from Grammy and Pop, a waterproof book, a green frog, plus the old standbys: two yogurt containers.
See the pictures here, including some of his nine month birthday on December 19.
