N - Home Court Advantage

Joel is gaining confidence every day in walking.  I estimate that he walks at least 50% of the time he wants to get somewhere while at home.  However, I've noticed that other places (church, friend's house, etc.) he rarely walks.  He usually drops straight to the familiar crawling position.  I wonder if others have noticed this in their kids.  At any rate, I'm proud of the boy.  He's growing up fast.

N - Belated Christmas Pics

We had a great Christmas and New Years with our family.  The weekend before Christmas we went up to Tulsa.  The weekend of Christmas was spent in Houston.  New Years weekend was spent at home.  Houston was warm and muggy as you might expect.  Despite passing around various illnesses (strep throat - Mary, Jill, Michaela, Danny, Brian, possibly Neil; pneumonia - Joel) we all had a good time.

The pics below are Joel at the park in Kingwood, Christmas morning with new basketball and football, our Christmas in Edmond, and with Santa Claus at Oklahoma Christian's Lighting of the Commons.

Winding down at the end of a busy day

N - Some Videos

Joel has been experimenting with various stages of mobility for awhile now but he finally decided to take things completely, and without assistance, vertical.  The video below from about 2 weeks ago shows the early stages - still a bit shaky.  Mary and I noticed tonight that he walked just about everywhere he wanted to go.

This video is Joel ham'n it up for his aunts and grandma while in Houston for Christmas.