Travelin' man...

That's our Logan! He's spent more time walking than crawling these past couple of days...you gotta love those staggery steps he takes across the kitchen floor! We're still trying to get some decent footage on video before he gets much better, otherwise we'll lose those beginner-type steps. I got some yesterday, but we'll work on getting more. Although once you put sneakers on him it's a whole new ballgame! They're pretty light, but he still gets a bit clunkier when he has them on. Walking with shoes will take even more practice! :)

October madness!

So we had Jon's birthday Sunday, Dad's would have been Tuesday (love you, Dad!), mine was Wednesday, and Mary's was today! We all went out to dinner at Damon's tonight, where Jon and I got lots of awesome gift cards to restaurants, movies, and babysitting services! Jon also got me an external hard drive so I could back all of our pictures up in case the old dinosaur here ever decides to spontaneously combust.

Logan is walking more and more! I can't wait until he's at it full time...I know mobility comes with its own set of headaches, but it also makes him a little more portable! He's feeding himself with a fork too. He's still working on the logistics of the spoon, but the fork is definitely mastered!

Jon and I are off to California in 2 weeks! I'm so looking forward to our first mini-vaca since Logan was born, but we'll miss the 'lil guy like crazy too. My mom and his parents are tag-teaming watching Logan for us. Hopefully everything goes well (on both coasts!).

Jon news

As far as Jon's publishing saga goes, more good news! France bought the entire trilogy and according to Jon's agent, this deal is tied for the biggest one JABberwocky's ever cut over there! That's so amazing! So now we have "the big three" locked down...the UK, Germany, and France. Jon tells me that the Czech Republic has a few houses interested, so they're going to hold an auction...rights go to the highest bidder!

Walking!

Logan walked across the living room all by himself yesterday! It was so amazing to see him just let go of the couch and stroll over to me, not hesitating or stopping (or falling) once on his way over! Jon said he did it again today. I guess we can say he's really "walking", although he still prefers to crawl around the house like a little spider monkey (man, that kid is fast)!!

And I forgot to report his 1 year-old check-up a couple of weeks ago went really well. He's 31 inches tall and 25 lbs, so definitely a bruiser at this point. He got a couple of shots, which he handled decently as well. She was impressed with the wide variety of foods he's eating and encouraged us to continue exposing him to different things (except to keep holding off on peanut butter for now). She wants him totally weaned from the bottle by his 15 month-old check-up, which shouldn't be too bad. He drinks completely out of sippy cups at this point, except for the one bottle right before bed...that's gonna be the tough one to crack, I think!