it's taken me a week to come to terms with the fact that her first steps (without holding on) were to someone other than momma or daddy and that neither of us were there to see her. naturally, she took them at daycare. when i first went back to work, i had a hard time with missing her "firsts" but i had made peace with it since she spends her weekdays at a place full of love for her. that said, first steps are a big one and i was trying to prepare myself for it but apparently i wasn't ready. mostly, i wasn't ready for her to walk yet. even though she's been steady on her feet and toddling behind anything that rolls or scoots and along anything stationary since christmas, we just weren't in a rush for her to be off and walking all by her big-girl self. so we hadn't been coaching, encouraging, pushing, or working with her...i just wanted her to get there in her own time. and she did.
by the time she got home in the evenings last week, she was too pooped to take much more than one wobbly step. over the weekend, she took SIX steps to her very proud momma and she hasn't slowed down. it's so cute to see how proud of herself she is.
we captured some footage tonight. enjoy.
p.s. new posting under january
2 comments:
Aw sweet Marianne you brought tears to Nana's eyes!
That's so funny. She walks like a little E-wok. How adorable. Made me giggle.
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