You can look at this one of two ways: it’s either the day parents are either looking forward to or dreading…or perhaps it’s a bit of both, really. Yep, it’s the day your baby takes that leap of faith and takes his or her first steps without holding on to something.
You can’t help but be proud of the little guy because he’s obviously figuring things out for himself and can get to where he wants to go, well, a few steps at a time, that is. But you really can’t help dreading the fact that with increased mobility comes increased ability to actively seek out and get into mischief. But that would seem to be an occupational hazard of having a baby… 🙂
Right now, he’s into walking between two people…or is it that he’s into getting the inevitable applause that occurs right after a few steps are taken? It’s rather hard to tell. But he is balancing and walking on his own even if it is just a couple of steps that often ends with a dive toward the target person/object.
When you see things like this, it’s hard not to appreciate the times when he was decidedly less mobile in that baby carrier as now life is becoming a constant sit down, stand up, go retrieve rug rat, put rug rat next to toys, and then repeat several times. 🙂