He walks all the time

It's hard to believe that Matthew has only been walking since Tuesday. After 3 days of walking, falling, and finding his balance, Matthew is walking all over the place. He is now walking all the time with some crawling only when he is too tired to walk. But Matthew has the determination to walk. He is falling some but he gets right back up and tries again. He hardly ever cries. It just shows how he was fully capable of walking for a month now but he just needed the mental/self-confidence to do it.

Since the weather is hot, we get in the pool on the weekends. Matthew likes to move around in the pool in his little floatie. He looks and points at the birds, the airplanes, and the moon. Matthew has a lot of teeth for 14 months old. He has 14 teeth ( I think) and it looks like one of the last 2 is coming in. He was fussy most of the weekend because of it. He started feeling better Sunday night just before we had to put him to bed.

He is talking more. His new thing is to pretend that he is on the phone. He will do it with anything - a pen or Rusty's dog chew toy and pretend that he is talking on the phone by having a little conversation. All I can make out is that he says "hello" and holds the toy to his ear and rambles. It's the cutest thing. He also mimics us with words like my "Ohhhh". He pretends to get stuff out of the hand sanitizer dispenser and puts his hands to his face - just like daddy does in the mornings (except Andy uses after-shave).

One noteworthy milestone to record is that Matthew is not using the bottle anymore. We sort of quit it cold turkey. He was only using it at night and the mornings. He definitely doesn't drink as much milk now and actually I think he is not getting enough. The daycare told me that he is drinking more there now so that's good. We stopped giving him the bottle on memorial day and he fussed at night a little but after the first night, he adjusted just fine. He goes to sleep at the daycare without a bottle, so that probably helped him adjust to no bottle at night-time, too.