Mealtime...The Pictures Say it All (plus a video of Tommy's first steps!)

Chocolate Mousse

Yogurt

Birthday Cake

More Birthday Cake

And here's a video that I have been promising my mom for a week now of some of Tommy's first steps. He started walking toward the end of June (just after his first birthday). It was actually a pretty low key event. We haven't been working really hard with Tommy to walk, I guess because it seemed like he was getting it pretty well on his own. He has been able to stand up on his own since about the middle of May so we knew those first steps were coming, whether we liked it or not:) Tommy took his first steps almost on accident. He was playing with his toys while I was working on the computer and it was almost like he took a couple of steps without even trying very hard or realizing what he was doing. I made a big deal of it, of course, and called Ben into the room to come cheer Tommy on (one of the perks of having a telecommuting job) and then Tommy realized that he had done something big. For the rest of the day he practiced and practiced until we took this video toward the end of the day. He can now walk much better and can go for much longer before falling, although he does still waddle a like a penguin.

Tommy Birthday Videos!

Hey all,

We got some videos of Tommy.

Here's one of Tommy and his cousin Rachel.

And here's the highlight of his birthday party, go ahead and explore the rest of the videos on Vimeo if you're interested.