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Today Art was in the living room with Jessica and I when he took three tiny steps. After that he got really excited and would shoot up and down standing in place or fall into our arms over and over again. But he did take his first steps! It's a big day in the world of Arthur and his proud parents.

  

This is Art with his new friend, Riley (almost 2). Riley comes over every Thursday to hang out with his his Momma, Marcy, while she takes care of Art. Well, she takes care of both of them. Looks like they're having fun to me!       

Art has been standing up on his own for a few weeks now. And boy is he tired!!! But seriously, he can stand unassisted AND play with a toy without tipping over! We're going to Mexico the first week of November and we kept thinking he would be walking by then. At this rate it could go either way. He seemed to try and take a step the other day, but it was so small it really could have been our imagination. Mostly, if he's standing and we try to encourage him to come to us he just gets down and crawls. Any bets on whether he will cross the border on two feet?

I'm trying out YouTube on the blog. Kinda clunky, but loads lots faster. This is a four minute video of art fetching, clapping, destroying, and making wonderful sucking noises. You can watch this video below on the blog, or go directly to YouTube by clicking this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_lSNV72JBw [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_lSNV72JBw&w=425&h=350]

Art was sitting on my lap this morning looking around and drooling on himself and I said, "Clap hands!". And he did. It was the surest I've been that he understands language. Then I said, "Where's Carma?" (our cat). And then he pointed to her! In-fricken-credible. It made him so happy, too.