Zoe has been inching ever closer to the walking milestone for a few weeks. For a couple of months, she's been walking holding onto one finger from each of our hands. She's been the "leader" when she walks. This started, oh, sometime around 8 months or just before. Over spring break as soon as she started crawling, she also started pulling up and ever so slowly tried to cruise along the furniture. That's just another moment in the past. She goes in circles around furniture, and you can see it in her eyes every once in a while that she just wants sooooo bad to let go. She has started to get a little more gutsy and let go to stand alone. When she does, she succeeds, but then she realized that she's not holding anything and gets scared. She intentionally falls down most of the time. But when I hold onto her and let go, she falls down almost immediately. What's the difference??? Who knows...maybe part of the independence factor. A couple of weeks ago, she stood up on her push walker and took off. Surprised me to say the least. Here's a video I got of her doing that...one of the first times she ever did so.
Oh I can't believe it! Time has flown by, it doesn't seem possible that she is old enough to be making these milestones. None the less, she is doing great!
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