Oh this boy!  His nickname is “Troublemaker” and it’s becoming more fitting every day.  

So Sammy took his first steps about two weeks ago, and hasn’t looked back since.  Truly, he doesn’t crawl anymore.  Now that Sam is exploring the world on foot he doesn’t stop.  Most of my pictures of him are like these ones – trying to catch him as he walk/runs away.

When he is holding still, his favorite activity is throwing things down the stairs.  Toys, sippy cups, magnets, and the other day I caught him high-tailing to the gate with my iPhone – fortunately I caught him before that bounced down the stairs.  

Then there was this – I walked into the kitchen to find him climbed up Clare’s step-stool and doing his darnest to get onto the counter.  Notice there is a knife block and a hot cup of coffee right in his reach.  Yikes!  I put the step-stool away, but something tells me this only the first time that I catch him in a precarious position.

Good thing this little guy is so stinkin’ cute!