Steady as She Goes, Marching through March
Allow me to sort of catch you up here so that I don’t forget all this stuff. So the initial shaky starts got a little smoother, and then Nina’s number of steps increased a bit as time went on. Her progress is steady, but there’s a lot of testing and stumbling going on while she gets this whole thing figured out. March the 14th was definitely an improvement over the previous day, at times. A few days later she sometimes didn’t need as much help with her start. A few days after that and she was going back and forth between mommy and daddy, 3 steps at a time. Yesterday (the 25th) she was really starting to get the hang of it, for the first time really seeming to prefer walking as a means of locomotion, and sometimes going 4 to 5 solid, pretty well placed steps. Much of the time that she did start losing her balance, she regained it, and when she fell she fell mostly on her butt. When she didn’t fall on her butt, her hands and arms had the strength to save her head. I saw her cruising along our dining room gate yesterday and then look for all the world like she said “to heck with this,” and pushed away from it to walk on her own. Today, the 26th, we started to hear words that sounded like “cheers!” and “fishy!” at completely appropriate times. She’s doing great, and by now she probably thinks her name is “good girl!”
Alright so that’s the way of things up to present, let’s go back to the 14th and see some pictures and videos!
Nina reads in the sunroom. We’ll work on that “right side up” thing soon. 😉 See this image larger.
We have a lot of “Daddy Loves Me” clothes, and I almost always seem to pick those outfits on days when I’ll have time to take pictures. See this image larger.
Ian and Nina play with the parking garage. See this image larger.
Guess who was playing with it first? Does it matter? Haha! See this image larger.
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Click here to see and hear Nina making goofy noises.
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Click here to see Nina trying for a good step, but falling a little short.
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Click here to see Nina starting to get the hang of this walking thing!
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Click here to see Nina playing and saying “dut!” on March 15th.
March 16th, Daddy, Nina and Ian watch an episode of Backyardigans… See this image larger.
…it was apparently intense enough that we all had to bite our fingers or blankies. See this image larger.
March 18th, and we’re seeing some signs of spring. Like these plants. And the now-visible hundred-or-so roofing nails from a contractor experience I’d really rather not talk about. See this image larger.
Ian and Brandon’s son Max playing before we went out to dinner. It was cool to see these two interacting. Max has so much big boy personality… I can’t believe Ian’s only a year younger! See this image larger.
