We officially have two children that can walk. While everyone has seen Avery walk for a long time, or littlest girl now is up and moving. And with every step that Lucy takes she wants to prove to us that she is her own independent child who will do her own thing. Avery started walking a little before 11 months, and Lucy decided to wait until 13 months. With Avery she took about three steps and then a couple minutes later took 7, and just kept increasing that. Lucy on the other hand would take about 4 steps for the last couple of weeks and then would take less and less as we tried to get her to do it. Then last week she walked from our couch to the carpet about 10 steps, and so I posted online that she could walk. At that moment she then decided to crawl for the next couple of days. The videos that are below are of her a couple weeks ago when she was first starting. She stood in the middle of the hallway and danced to the music.
At this moment I told her that any child that can stand up on her own and dance in the middle of the hallway with her hips swaying that they should be able to walk. From that point on she took it as a challenge and has been working on it. The rest of that morning we practiced walking in the hallway.
Overall she is becoming quite the little walker, and the only time we crawl is if she wants to get somewhere fast. It is very cute how often she likes to remind us that she is her own person and will do things in her own time.
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