This past week Ava has shown more interest in walking. She has been furniture walking more and enjoying walking while holding someone's hand. On Wednesday (while Rich was home teaching) she took 3 steps to me. Then if she wasn't thinking about it she would take a step or two. All week it has been a couple steps here and a couple steps there.
On Saturday while in Gridley Ava started making more of an effort to walk on her own. She stood up all by herself a couple times and moved her feet. One time she took 5 steps from the train table toward the sliding glass door (Rich was at Priesthood Meeting). On Sunday she made a few more attempts.
Today Ava has been trying to walk all over the house...it is crazy. Usually she crawls to get toys, books, or one of us, but a few times she stood up and started walking. It was exciting, but weird all at the same time. Ava has pretty good balance and is learning to steady herself quickly. She will often walk and then pause for a second to regain her balance instead of falling. She also can walk, squat to pick up a toy, and stand up to walk a little farther. At one point I think she was feeling pretty confident and she looked like she was trying to run. That ended up with her falling on top of a toy...OOUCH! I think within the next week Ava will be covered with bumps and bruises and running around the house getting into a whole lot of trouble.
*I'll try to get some video of Ava walking posted soon.
4 comments:
How exciting! With all the falls, getting into things, and learning to climb there is also the cleaner clothes and the joy they feel at being able to master something. We can't wait to hear all about it!
I am so excited to see the video. I know what you mean about it seeming strange. Sometimes Ezra will come walking into a room and it will catch me by surprise. "Oh that's right, you can walk." I can't wait until they are running around together.
Lisa, It is so fun to see Ava growing up! I bet you can't believe she is almost walking. Our babies grow up before we know it. My baby got dressed all by himself the other day and was so proud. I wasn't sure whether to be happy or sad. His pants were on backwards but he was so excited. He's 3 1/2 and proud of it! Not so much a baby anymore!
Those first few weeks of walking were so hard for Avery...it was fun for him but he fell alot. We're working hard on our adoption application. We've just got our Foster Care reading to finish up, our CPR/First Aid, doctor appointments for Clark and I, and our home visit on the 16th. Hoping to finish our application by the end of April if not before. Then I can relax...and start the waiting game. It will easier to wait now that I'm already a mother and we have our little Avery. The waiting was so hard for me before because I didn't even know if I would ever get to be a mother and I wasn't sure if Heavenly Father planned for us to be parents in this life or if his plan was for us to be alone. Now I know I'm a mother and I know miracles can happen for us. Good luck with your adoption, too!
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