Almost walking

We noticed one day this past week that Alex was just standing at the coffee table but not holding on. I think that was on Wednesday. Every day she lets go more and more. If she has something in her hand to play with she will stand for several seconds. I have tried putting her behind her walker a few times but she hasn't wanted anything to do with it. Then today I stood her up behind it and she just took off! It is so cute to see her walking around with her little chubby legs. David of course wanted in on the fun so he came up and took the walker away from her several times. I got it on video once. She just keeps standing there once he takes it away. He does bring it back though. Alex is also waving and saying bye bye. I didn't even know she could do it and one day last week David was telling someone bye-bye and she was sitting on the floor next to him saying the same thing and waving her little arm.
David is in a really funny stage right now. He knows he is cute and really plays it up. In fact, today while we were eating lunch he said "I cute" several times and then laughed. He loves the book Go Dog Go. He will bring it to you and say Go Go and then sit in your lap for you to read it. I think I read it 10 times to him yesterday on the couch. He has started to show sympathy and he is recognizing other peoples emotions. We watched a little bit of Finding Nemo this morning and when the diver came up behind Nemo causing him to scream for his dad, David looked at me and started saying "oh no, oh no Nemo, oh no". Yesterday Alex was crying and he pointed at her and said " cry, oh no, cry".
We have a pretty busy week so I probably won't post again until we get back from our anniversary trip. I will leave you with the two videos below. They are both of Alex using her walker.