*I thought I was being a slacker recently as I haven’t taken nearly as many pictures of Baby B as before, but then I realized that the decline started right as she started walking everywhere. Little bug is fast, I tell you!! I’ll let her roam to other rooms by herself a lot of the time and she usually comes back out on her own, but if she’s in a room and out of my sight for longer than a minute or so, I have to go hunting for her. She doesn’t stay still long enough to let me get my camera, let alone take a picture. Maybe I should just keep the camera on video mode all the time now.
*I let Baby B walk on the sidewalk for the first time by herself without holding my hand, and I have to admit that it made me so nervous! She can get started walking so fast, and quite often she leans her entire body forward as she takes her forward steps, and I’m terrified she’s going to trip over something or just misstep and fall on her chin. It’s one thing to fall on the living room carpet, but another to fall on concrete. She did trip once a couple days ago but had good reflexes and caught herself fine on her hands. It’s not too much to hope she always catches herself, is it? 
*Yesterday when I was home with Baby B (we had to keep her home again on Thursday because her chest congestion was too bad), she walked backwards for the first time, taking probably six or seven carefully calculated steps, followed by about four or five sideways steps. (She also did it a few more times throughout the day.) It’s so fun to see how proud of herself she is when she does new things like this! And it’s just a fraction of the pride that ignites inside me at these times.
*One of the things on our to-do list for the summer is go to the Cincinnati Children’s Museum to let Baby B explore the toddler-friendly exhibits. (We have a children’s museum here, but it doesn’t have much geared toward younger toddlers.) The one thing we were waiting for before making the trip was for her to start walking well, and it looks like that’s been checked off our list. I don’t know yet when we’re going to head up there, but I can’t wait. We’ll probably also put a trip to the zoo on our itinerary when we’re in the area. I’d love to do it soon when all the zoo babies are tiny.
*You know one of the big reasons I’ve been excited for Baby B to walk? Not just because it’s a big milestone, but because crawling makes the knees of her pants very dirty. I know she’ll still find ways (and new ways, at that!) to get her play clothes dirty, but I’m definitely glad to be past the dirty knees of crawling.
Friday, April 11, 2008 at 2:43 pm |
Now you’ll just have to deal with dirty socks (as Aiden has so quickly taught me – he he)!