walking and talking

Many milestones are being reached by our little Shane man! Last weekend he began standing on his own, and then he took two steps. Of course, as soon as we took out the video camera, all he wanted to do was crawl! Today he took five steps to me, so he is making progress. What is really cute is that he is just so proud of himself. After he stands on his own for a bit, he sits down and claps and squeals for himself!

While Shane has been saying a few words for a while now (the standard mama, dada, bye-bye, etc.) Faith has taken it upon herself to really work on talking! She is constantly working with him on saying all the important things in life, such as Buck (as in Buck Owens), trash truck, and Target. It's cute to see her go up to him as she did this afternoon before we headed out to do some shopping at Target and say, "Shane, can you say Target?" Then when he attempts it, she laughs and tells me, "Mommy, Shane said Target!" She takes such joy in teaching him. And she is his official interpreter in case he says something that I'm not quite sure of. What a great big sister.

The pictures below are from this past weekend. My parents and sister were in town for Labor Day weekend. We had a great time with them!

Faith enjoyed a smoothie and PB&J by the pool

We couldn't let a football Saturday go by without watching our favorite team!