Baby Steps

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Walkin' Tall

Zach continues to progress closer and closer to walking on his own. He recently started walking behind push toys. We practiced with him a few times and he always struggled. So we laid off it for probably a week. Then, like with the sippy cup and crawling before it, he suddenly got it. And not just a little, he skipped the part in between struggling walking the toy across the entire length of the house.

Pictures don't do it justice, so enjoy the video. Notice he even recovers from a misstep towards the end.

We're expecting to see first steps any day now. Zach has been flirting with letting go as he walks along the furniture. Hopefully, I'm not jinxing it with this mention.

See Zach Bounce

We figured we should get (and share) some video of Zach using his bouncer before he grows out of it.

Crawling

Two weeks ago I said Zach hasn't made any progress crawling. Until this past week that was true. Once or twice during the week, we caught him pulling himself forward. He'd only do it once and it was only when he had something to pull on, so we didn't think too much of it.

That changed yesterday morning. I put him down to grab something in our bedroom. The cat was sitting across the room. Out of nowhere, Zach starts crawling toward Izzy.

Naturally, the first thing we did when we got home last night was get him to crawl again and take video of it. Notice how excited the little guy is and that Izzy is clearly the target.

New Tricks

Zach picked up a couple of new tricks over the past week or so.

He's started to sit up on his own.

He's discovered his feet and now plays with them whenever he is on his back.

He's become seriously ticklish. (Make sure your sound is on.)

Moving on up

The Zach Blog has a new home.

I was surprised at how much effort adding a single post required. We've moved the Zach Blog to Google's Blogger service for a whole bunch of reasons.

• Make posting easier - it's so easy, I stand a chance of talking Melissa into posting.
• Readers can now leave comments on each post.
  
• Integration with other Google services - see the video below and my Google reader shared items in the lower right.
• Less obscure address
  

Thanks to Google's integration, we have video of Zach rolling over to share.

More to come.

-Mike