Walking... at last!

After we have been saying that Benjamin has been so close to walking for some time, he decided tonight was the night to start! Now he had been taking one or two small steps here and there up until now, but nothing like tonight! We were all in the living room hanging out with Steve's good friend Justin who is visiting us from Virginia and Benjamin started standing and staring at me with this very cute expression - a mixture of confidence and glee. I knew something was up so I started encouraging him to start walking towards me and he did! In fact, before we captured him in the video below, I had him walk to me a couple of times. Then Steve caught him taking eight steps towards me! We are so proud of him!