More milestones

Happy New Year everyone! Hope you had a wonderful celebration, and have made some good resolutions. Graham has evidently resolved to walk as soon as possible in 2009- today he took his first "real" steps, between Jon and I three different times, which was amazing to see! He's still a little concerned about striking out on his own, but more and more he tries to walk instead of dropping down to crawl everywhere he goes. I think before Shosho leaves next week he'll really be going. In other news, his first tooth finally popped through two days ago as well! It the is bottom right incisor, and he loves to run his tongue and fingers over the little ridge all day long. It must be a strange new sensation!
And here are some sandbox pictures as I promised.

As you can see he was very serious about his work. He can focus so intensely sometimes, it's funny and fascinating to watch. I wonder what is going on in that little head.
Jonathan and I have been talking about how we kind of wish Graham would stop growing up because he is at such a fun and cute stage. I am going to miss his little backside as he crawls down the hall, and his unintelligible jabbering that is obviously deeply meaningful to him once he starts talking and walking. But this isn't the first time we've thought it was an amazing life stage. I guess that is part of the magic of children, each new discovery is as good or better than the last.

Much love,
Kate