A Week of Milestones

Sheesh it's been a while since I've posted....we've been busy busy busy! I cannot believe that Merrick's 1st birthday is tomorrow. This year flew by way too fast...I need a couple more years of his first year. In the last few days we've hit a few milestones. Let's see....

Merrick finally decided he would move out of the puree phase and on to finger foods...yay! I seriously thought he'd be calling me for the next batch of purees while he was in college. Anyway, he used to hate bananas, but now it's pretty much all he will eat. Every morning when he wakes up he says..."nana, nana...mmmmmm". So cute! He's going to turn into a monkey, I'm certain of it! Here he is below enjoying his favorite food of the moment. See, he even looks like a monkey:

Next - he's had his first ice cream cone! I know, bad Mommy. But Aunt Tracy is in town and we had to celebrate with something yummy in this already-horrendous heat:

And last but certainly not least...we have a walker! While there have been a few steps here and there over the last week or so, as of yesterday he is officially walking! We have him below walking to Aunt Tracy - even since this video he's mastered it even more: