He Walks!

Today Dylan hit a HUGE milestone. He's enjoyed walking while holding our hands for months. He's been working standing on his own for weeks with his legs getting increasingly closer together and more steady. He got a walking toy for his birthday and has absolutely loved moving around with it. So, we knew the day was coming but nothing could have prepared us for the shock we felt today.

After a fairly cranky day, by Dylan standards, and one with little naps, we didn't expect a happy baby tonight. But, after we got home from some errands and started dinner, he was ready to play. He moved from squat to standing several times, as he's been doing fairly often in the last week, before Mike moved in from of him. And then, as I stopped making dinner and turned around to watch, Dylan walked two steps to Mike all by himself! We whooped, laughed and cheered together. Then, because I can't stand to be left out, I stood a couple of steps away from him after Dylan got into a steady standing position....he then walked 1.5 steps to me. Literally minutes afterwards, we witnessed him walking 5, then 7 then 9-10 steps at a time!

He was obviously LOVING it and very excited about it. So excited in fact that he was frog jumping because he was so anxious to get on two feet moving that he wasn't being patient enough with his body and was trying to get to his feet and going too quickly. When he did give his wobbly legs enough time, he would start stepping. When he fell, he would get right back up without getting upset even though the poor child was ridiculously exhausted.

Needless to say, Mike and I felt incredibly proud and very excited...for him and with him. What a major milestone he accomplished today! As much as he improved 10 minutes after his first steps today, I can only imagine he'll be walking laps around the house by the time I get home from work tomorrow.

My Little Walker