Thursday, April 2, 2009

It's official: I can toddle


I am through with playing around.  Well, with learning to walk that is...  (this is my friend Violet and I can play with her for hours.  She is the one with the ornery smile.  Her mommy has watched me a couple of times while my mommy has gone to some job interviews.  We have fun together.)  Anyway, I am in full practice mode.  I practice walking any chance I get.  Instead of playing with my toys, I grab on to the closest set of big person fingers I can find and make them walk laps around the house with me.  Mommy sits down on the couch:  I find one finger and then two and I make her get up and follow me around the house.  Daddy comes home:  I wiggle in his arms until he puts me down on the floor and walks with me.  Miss Meg comes over for a visit: first thing I do is find her fingers and drag her around with me.

Up until yesterday (April 1st... I didn't get this blog published until a week later) I have been toying around with one unsupported step here or two wobbly steps there.  Now I can practically make it across the room without help, although I prefer to hold onto someone's hand while we walk.  

My favorite thing to do is take a walk outside.  I like to walk all over our cul de sac.  We are one of the rare streets in our neighborhood that has sidewalks.  I like to step up on and jump down off of the curbs.  Mommy is afraid that one of these days I am going to fall down and skin my face on the sidewalk.  Maybe, but until then and probably even after, I am going to be a dare devil and push my limits along with mommy's buttons.  

1 comment:

Linda said...

And why are you awake so late, little girl? Are you still walking around? You know, I need to tell your mommy that we spend the first two years of a kids life teaching them to walk and talk, and then the next 18, to 'sit down and shut up.'

Your friend looks like a sweet girl, just like you!