balloons, walking, and borrowed shoes

Today was Dylan's friend Adal's birthday party. He and Dylan are only 5 days apart. The party was at a local park in Sierra Madre with lots of good company and yummy food. Dylan surprised us with taking a few steps, while borrowing a pair of Adal's walking shoes... which immediately led to the borrowing of said shoes for Dylan to further practice his steps at home. Maybe it wasn't the shoes, but he seemed to do well in them. Nike shoes. Go figure.
Only 5 more days until Dylan is ONE. I can hardly believe it has been a year already since he was born. Time really has flown by the past 6 months (meaning that the first 6 months seemed slow-going with so little sleep on board with our family). He has grown into such a fun little boy and we are excited to watch his development in the next few months with more words, steps, and the like.
Speaking of development, we got some video of him taking some more steps tonight while he was playing with some balloons from the party that we brought home with us. We kind of tricked him into thinking we were holding onto him while he held onto the balloon string instead... and behold: a walking Dylan!