Posted on Sunday 11 January 2009
After 16.5 months Kaelyn is finally walking!!!!
Around mid-October last year Kaelyn would stand and take 3 or 4 steps occasionally. She did that for a few weeks and then completely stopped. She hasn’t seemed interested in trying to walk at all since then. She would walk as long as she was holding on to someone’s hand, but the moment you let go then she would sit right down. I was starting to get very worried, but everyone (including her pediatrician) assured me she was just fine and would walk when she was ready.
Well, this evening, January 11, was a momentous occasion! Matt, Kaelyn, and I were sitting around in the living room floor watching Finding Nemo. Kaelyn was crawling around playing and semi-watching the movie. At one point I looked over at Kaelyn and she was just standing there all by herself. I quickly told Matt to look at her and we were very happy just to see her standing like that. Then all of a sudden she just took off walking over to me!!! I could not stop my tears!!! My heart was so proud and overfilled with joy. I had been waiting for this moment!
Then Kaelyn walked over to Matt. Then she walked over to her rocking chair, and back to me, and back to Matt. You get the idea! For the rest of the evening she walked all over the living room as if she had been doing it for months and it was no big deal.
I guess she was just waiting until she was good and ready and really knew what she was doing! It was like someone just turned on her light switch because the change was completely sudden and out-of-the-blue.
I’m sure walking will bring its own challenges of chasing her down, but I am so excited for this new milestone! My baby is turning into a big girl!
Here’s video evidence:
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Whoo hoooo!!! Uncle is sooo proud!!!!!
that is SOOOO exciting!! the video is very cute, too. and yeah, she looks like she’s been walking for a while! maybe you’re right, and she just wanted to wait until she really knew what she was doing.
i would be willing to bet, though, that this next baby will be walking MUCH sooner – with a big sister to show her how to do it!
That’s awesome! I imagine that I’d be crying tears of joy as well. Although I can’t say that, at 28, I do a better job at walking across a room.
That is the cutest video ever! She is so proud of herself, you can tell!
Congratulations to Kaelyn!