Walkin' and Talkin'

I've been meaning to post about Forrest's walking for about a week now. When we were at the beach in April, he began taking more steps together than he had been up to that point. It's taken him a couple of weeks to decide he really thought it was worth it to walk. :) After all, crawling was still a much faster way to keep up with big brother! But, in the past week or so, he's been walking a lot more! And in the past couple of days, walking has become his main mode of movement! He's a big boy!!

This is a picture of Forrest walking at the beach. He looks like he's working hard!



Forrest is quite the talker, too. He imitates so many words and seems to be so much more verbal than Andrew was at this age. For my own records, I wanted a list of all of his words...

asi (paci), ba-ba (bottle), owside (outside), Ola (Magnoila), Daiz (Daisy), Mama, Dada, Bubba (Bubby), cookie, cracker, ball, iss (this), cup, oose (juice), mas (Thomas the Train), car, bye-bye, ook (book), aura (Laura) :), diaper, choo-choo, quack-quack (duck), uh-oh

These he says on his own, but many times he'll imitate the words we say... like wagon, tractor, and thirsty. So cute! He loves making noises with his mouth, too. I have joked that maybe he's been so busy trying to talk and that's what has kept him from walking any sooner! He's walkin' and talkin' now though!

Forrest is still a big boy! At his 1 year check-up he was in the 80% for height and above 100% in weight. As I've said before... he loves to eat!