First Word?

Cleaning up Joseph, yesterday, my fresh-scrubbed boy leans over, smiles seraphically, and says "Da-puh." Since that's the exact same pronunciation Elena uses, I instantly recognized it as a request for clean pants. It might not have been what he intended, but it is what he got. He's been babbling things for a few weeks, mostly "Buh-buh-buh-buh" and occasionally "Dah-dah." That's not the only new skill he's displayed, though. Sometimes when we wave to him, we can get him to wave back, but it's more of a whole-arm flap, and he also made his first step toward walking, this morning. He'd pulled up on Jonathan's legs while Jonathan was sitting on the couch, then Joseph turned, smiled, let go with one hand, and stepped. He promptly fell down, but it was his first step.