He’s been doing this for a couple of days now, but I was just able to capture it on camera. If you have a kid, you know how it is — as soon as you want to get a picture of a new milestone, he immediately stops doing it. Put the camera away, and he’ll start walking all over the place again. He’ll walk to the moon and back. But none of your friends will believe you.

Today, I finally got lucky. Or maybe it wasn’t luck. Maybe I was able to snap these pictures because this is it. It’s not something he’s just trying out for size anymore… it’s The Real Deal! Maybe he, like so many humans before him, has chosen the upright position as his primary method of transportation.

The open mouth thing? It totally helps him keep his balance. Hey, you gotta do what you gotta do.