Two Videos

Gunner got a new rocking horse from his Aunt Linda. He loves it! Here's a video of his first time riding it!

He also got a ride on the train at the mall after he saw Santa. He thought that was fun.

Christmas week photos

Just a few pictures...Gunner got to ride a train at the mall, ride a rocking horse at home, and he got to see Santa again (the same Santa from last year).

ONE Year Old!

Gunner's ONE! He had a fun birthday on Saturday. We baked him his own cake and let him dig in with his hands. He didn't actually eat very much of it but he had a glorious time squishing it between his fingers and putting it in his har (video at the end). It was very entertaining!!

Today was the 1 yr well-baby appointment and Gunner is 20lbs 7oz and 29" long. That puts him in the 50% for height and 25% for weight. His head was 50%. So, he's grown and he's perfectly healthy. Yay!!

Next up, terrible twos!

Video proof of Walking

Ok, so the video is a little dark, but we finally got him taking a few steps. He still prefers to crawl when he's in a hurry, but he's walking more and more. He's the proof!

He's WALKING!

Gunner took his first steps this past Sunday Nov 2nd! All of our cadets that we sponsor were there to witness it, but Mike was at West Point for the football game. Gunner walked about 3 steps to get his toy numerous times, but the most he walked was about 5. It was fun to watch. He's still much more content crawling because it's faster, but he loves to run full speed while he's holding our hands. I think he'll be walking/running unaccompanied soon. I'll try to get some video.

We had a fun Halloween. Gunner had two costumes--we dressed him up as a monkey to trick or treat at the next door neighbors and then he was a scary cat at home when the trick or treaters came to get candy. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to get good pictures of him in the cute little cat outfit.

First Haircut!

Gunner finally had his first haircut. His hair was about an inch past his ear (and we can't possibly have him out of regs). He sat patiently while Mom, Dad and Grandma took turns trying to figure out how to cut his hair. The last picture is after the haircut--unfortunately, he had yams all over his face!

Back in regulation!

10 Months!

"Just a tiny bit more time...." and he'll be walking!!!

Gunner is 10 months old today and yesterday he took two steps and a dive into my lap. We're not counting that as his "official" walk yet because he was very off balance, but he's close. He's cruising all around and crawling faster than we can run!

We weighed him at 19.5 lbs today and he's somewhere around 28 or 29 inches tall. It's hard to tell because we can't get him to sit still long enough to measure. We can't even get his monthly pictures of him sitting in the chair anymore because he just wants to stand up and walk off it. Oh well. I guess we'll have to leave it to the professionals for photos from now on.

We went for a walk today when it was 43 degrees out so it was a good excuse to bundle Gunner up in the snow suit before he grows out of it. It was a riot! He looked like the State Puff Marshmellow man!! It was a nice walk though. With any luck, it'll snow in the next few weeks and we can take him sledding! Yeah!