The toddler stage....

One of his last few days with a bottle. Goodbye baby stage!

So I am not sure what age is officially the "toddler age", but I feel like we are almost there! Camden is now officially walking...everywhere!! And it literally happened overnight. He has been taking steps on his own since he was around 10 months old. I thought he would be walking by his first birthday, but apparently he didn't want to grow up that fast. So instead he would walk only if we stood him up, and begged him to walk into our arms. If we weren't around, he would just crawl. 

Walking through the zoo

That was until last week. He began taking some steps on his own, when we weren't near him. He would walk from couch to toy, or from wall to chair. We were shocked, he is actually trying to walk without us egging him on! Well it went from little steps back and forth between furniture, to him walking throughout the house. I am serious, it was like overnight. Now he is walking everywhere, and he can even stand himself up now without holding onto anything. He will bend down, pick up toys, and walk around with them. 

An evening desert walk with Mom and Dad. 

On Sunday when we picked him up from the nursery, they were asking us when he started walking. He wasn't doing it the Sunday before, so they were pretty surprised. It is pretty fun to now have a child walking. We brought him outside church with us in the grass and he was cruising all over, and didn't want us to come near him at all. I see an entire new independence in him now, he knows he can move and go wherever he wants now. Scary!

This is what boys do, they climb into everything! This table is gone now, way to scary even when mounted to the wall.

His other new thing is trying to pick up very big items. Sounds funny, huh? The other day I saw him walk out of the bathroom with Wes and he was carrying a 12 pack of toilet paper. I am not kidding you. It was as big as him. He walked down the hall way with it, dropped it, and bent down to pick it back up. Then at his music class this week, they brought out these large drums that were about 24" in diameter and Camden walked over and barely could reach both sides of it, yet he squatted down to try and pick it up. Such a silly boy!


I will leave you with a video of him from a few days ago. This was the beginning of his walking career, we are so proud of him.