Major's First Steps and 10 Months Old

After church on Wednesday, May 9th, Major decided to take his first steps!  We were saying good night to Eli and Brady in their room, we stood Major up, and he took 2 steps to Bill!  These first two photos are of Major taking more steps towards Bill.  The whole family was there, and we all cheered for him.  It was really cool.

Those steps really made me feel like it was all going by too fast, so the next day I got out the camera and just took some shots of Major playing.  He goes EVERYWHERE!!!  (And puts everything in his mouth.  Last night at Eli's ball game, I looked over and he had a cigarette in his mouth.  Yuck.  Today, during Eli's conference, I look over and he has a moth in his mouth.  So gross.)  So the next 3 pictures (and the very last one, I'm not sure how that happened...) are just Major cruising around doing his thing. 

These next 6 pictures are of Major on May the 11th...his 10 month old birthday!  He has been taking more steps and really talking a lot more.  At 10 months, Major is sleeping through the night consistently (hallelujah!), he says "dada, mama, nanana (I think this is "no"), E-I (Eli), Ah-ee (Brady), and can really mimic the inflection in our voices as he tries to say what we are saying.  As I already mentioned, he is everywhere and into everything.  He has never met something he couldn't fit into his mouth.  (This includes his classmates at Bible class...we will have to work on that.)  He loves to have fun and loves his brothers.  He is constantly laughing and smiling.  He doesn't say "hi", but he does wave hi and bye to people.  He lights up when he sees his brothers and follows them throughout the house.  He knows the sound of the door adjacent to the garage opening and he knows that means daddy is home, and when he hears it, he drops what he is doing and makes a happy squeal to the house as he makes a bee-line to Bill.  Another really cute thing that he does is, no matter where he is in the house, if I start singing, "Where oh where oh where is Major, where oh where or where is Major..." he will come to me.  I love it!