My Walker Bear

My little Walker Bear is growing up so fast. He has been off the bottle for about a week now! I saw that he was getting a little bit attached to it, so I knew that the longer I waited, the harder it would be to break him of it. I changed his schedule up a bit, and he hasn't fussed for a bottle at all! I think I might have been a little more attached to it then he was lol. I am very proud of both of us. :)
He is talking up a storm now, his favorite word is still dog. He also tries to say duck, ball, jump, and uh oh. He walks around jibber-jabbering all day. I love it, it is adorable.
Walker loves to try to jump. I will say "can you jump?", and he will say "dum! dum!" and bend his little legs and stomp around. It is pretty much the cutest thing I have ever seen. He is so proud of himself, everytime he does it, he claps afterwards. He also loves to dance. Any time music is on, or anything with a beat for that matter, he dances to it. Even the dishwasher. He bends down so low while dancing that he almost always falls down, but he gets right back up and keeps dancing. :)
Right now Walker has a cold. We took him the the emergency room last night because he had a fever, threw up, and was then breathing really fast like he couldn't catch his breath. I called the nurse line at Madigan, but I was just too worried to sit around and wait for a call so we packed up and spent 4 hours in the E.R. Ugh. It was a long night, but worth it of course. They decided that it is just a bad cold. They did chest X-rays and they looked perfect, so they sent us home. We were relieved. He is doing much better today. He just has a little bit of a runny nose and is coughing every now and then. I think mostly he is just uncomfortable from the congestion.
John and I are thinking about trying to take a trip to Hawaii. Walker too of course. We are getting the new homeowners credit and will hopefully have enough left over to take a little trip. Since we never had a wedding or a honeymoon, we feel we deserve it. :) We think it would be a blast and Walker would love the beach I think! Hopefully we can go!
Here is my new favorite picture of my WalkieBear

Yikes

I was doing so well at this blogging thing in the beginning. Now I am really slacking. Walker is doing so many new things each day, it is so important to me to record them all. We had a good time at Walker's birthday party, but Walker didn't. He was really overwhelmed and clung to us the whole time. I was disapointed, but oh well. At least he won't remember that he was scared. He had a good time helping me open his presents though. He was standing up in the big inflatable chair for the birthday child with me and had fun seeing all his new toys. We are in toy overload now. I haven't even opened them all. There just isn't enough room for everything!

Yesterday was Walker's first day of class at The Little Gym. During the warm up where we sing songs and do little excersises as a group, he was really shy and scared. But once he warmed up and had time to explore, he had a really good time! At the end they bring out a ton of balls and he just didn't know what to do, he was so excited! He also loved the bubbles. He followed them around and tried to pop them. It was so cute. I am really excited to go each week and help him get over his shyness a little. It is also really fun for me to meet the other mommies and just see Walker learning new things and have a good time.

He is doing so many new things just since my last update. He now tries to say "uh oh". He can't say oh yet, so he says "uh uh". He says it all the time. He will throw something just so he can say it.
I'm trying to teach him to feed himself with a spoon or fork. Last night I put some yogurt in a bowl and gave him a spoon. He gets to put the spoon in the bowl, but thats about it. He doesn't understand to then put it into his mouth. So, with the yogurt he decided to drink it like he were drinking from a cup. He picked up the bowl and put it to his mouth. He actually got some yogurt out so he kept doing it. It was too cute.

Walker just got his two top teeth yesterday. He has been teething for what seems like forever so I am so glad that they have finally popped through. The top right one is in quite a bit and the left one is just barely in. I can't believe how fast he is growing. It blows my mind how much he is learning each day.

Well, I will leave with some pictures. Walk is getting cranky and it's time for American Idol :)