Well Baby Girl has finally started walking!!! Last Tuesday (Aug 10) she officially did it! She has been practicing and taking steps for weeks, but I was rather picky about when I'd finally call her 'walking'. I wanted her to let go while standing and decide all on her own to take off and start walking without any prodding from Jeff or I. Also I wanted her to learn how to get from sitting to standing without any assistance. We've been coaxing her to walk between us for weeks and she'd be SO proud giggling from my lap to Jeff's. But Tuesday she was in her favorite class - Kindermusik - when she finally did it all on her own. Here she is with Ms Paula and Michael. They were both practicing 'bom-boms'.
She let go and decided she needed to walk towards Michael!
I stopped taking pictures then because she walked all the way over to me and fell in my arms. I never take photos during Kindermusik class but Ms Paula wanted pictures of her 2 fav students since it was the last day of the summer session. What luck!
Two more of the 'musicians' after class
After her big morning we went to Borders because we had a gift card that was burning a whole in our pockets. Jillian was all over the place walking around. Granted she couldn't really walk more than 10-15 steps without falling, but she loved practicing! Here she is deciding to let go and walk to me!
She was mesmerized by this; it was like her own giant playroom.
Over the past week she has gotten so much more confident and it's so fun to see her walk! To be honest, I was really getting tired of crawling; it's so dirty and she loved putting dead bugs and chunks of Austin hair in her mouth. I'm hoping now that she's standing this won't happen quite as often :)
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