Development.

Aidan is finally taking independent unsupported steps. So far today he has taken 3 individual steps, he still prefers to crawl, but it seems that he has seen the benefits of walking at least for one step to get from this box to that one. I was a little worried, because Allen and Chris both walked at 9 months, Aidan was 14 months old yesterday. I've been reading a lot of parenting magazines and internet articles about what is normal. 8 to 18 months is normal for starting to walk, but there is a disorder which effects the balance. It causes kids who have it to feel that they don't know where their bodies are in relation to the rest of the world and so they tend to be scared to try to walk on their own. Aidan gets so mad when we try to get him to walk that I was worried he might has this disorder. But today it seems that he was just waiting for his own time. Thank goodness.

His language skills are growing as well, he calls to his "Da" in the morning, holds out his "ba" to have it filled, he will yell "MA!" when he finds himself alone in a room. He says a lot of other things that we have a hard time understanding, but he knows what he is saying. A couple of days ago we were driving a friend to the DMV and Aidan said something that sounded like " Na me Dada, na na na." The friend was a man sitting in the spot where Howard usually sits. I took it to mean "Not my Daddy, no no no." He wasn't mad just stating a fact.