Tuesday, July 5, 2011 was a big day for Jonah. While he has been walking for a while now with props, and we've gotten him to walk a couple steps with the proper incentive (typically puffs, but once with Mommy's Cheez-Its), he really hasn't gotten the nerve to stay up and try more. When we attempted to put him down to walk, he would "retract his landing gear." All this seemed to change yesterday. He made several passes back and forth between us without much more incentive than hugs.
Unfortunately, he has an uncanny sense of when a camera is pointed at him, so we had a lot of difficulty in getting a video of him walking. We were finally able to capture a little something to share, though:
He didn't walk very far yesterday. Baby steps, right? Today was a different story!
At the library, after we read a book together, Jonah seemed to want to move, so I set him down, and he walked a good 15 feet to get to a little stool he likes to push around the library. This was not an isolated event. The library has some very enticing items that prompt Jonah to walk to them. The best thing is that he could just as easily have grabbed a shelf and cruised toward his object of desire.
Again, we weren't able to capture some of his longer foot journeys, but we did get this one to share:
The little girls in the video absolutely loved seeing Jonah walk. He even started to turn and maneuver a bit while I was checking out our books.
He did some more walking when we got home, but mostly behind his John Deere. It must have worn him out pretty good, though, because he went to sleep easier tonight than he has the past few nights.
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