It's finally warming up!

Now that the ice and snow is finally melting, it makes me a bit more energetic to get things accomplished instead of huddling on the couch to keep warm. It's been a pretty basic winter for us, and Callum is definitely keeping us busy. He's been walking steadily for over a month now--once he realized he could walk faster than he could crawl, he decided it was worthwhile. Now he tries to run lots of places, although that means his top half and bottom half don't always coordinate so he runs into things like he's a bit tipsy. Last weekend was his first big injury from it--he ran and tripped headfirst into the corner of the couch and had a nice knot on his head the rest of the day, but it was gone by the next day and now he just has a light bruise.
I realized I haven't updated since Christmas, so just for the sake of keeping this sort-of accurate, here are a few pictures. It already seems so long ago!
Here is Christmas at my parents. Callum was definitely overwhelmed after a few presents, but he was a trooper and made it through Chrsitmas there and at my grandparents' house.


Next up was Christmas at home. Callum was so pooped out from all of the other festivities, we waited a few days. Notice the large blank space in the background? That's where our Christmas tree was, but by the time we recovered enough to have yet another Christmas, we had already put the tree away. Callum didn't seem to care, though.

We used some Christmas money to get Callum his very own chair since he was always trying to sit in his travel high chair. So far he loves it, and he will entertain himself for ages by taking books to it and reading in it.
He's definitely gotten more fearless as he's become more mobile. Apparently, climbing into the bottom shelf was just too easy.
We're not doing a picture every month for an update, but here's his 15-month picture with Hey Hey. The Foot Book had to make it in the picture too. It was a favorite for quite a while, but has decreased on the popularity a bit in the last few days.