July 13, 2009

Officially walking

At 16 1/2 months Lilly is officially walking. She spent the weekend with my parents and came back in full walking mode. How does that happen in such a short period of time? She was walking 6-8 steps at a time on Friday and by Sunday she was walking 20+ steps with ease. She still tends to get over confident or really excited and often falls down when that happens but otherwise she can now pull herself up to the table or couch and will then take off walking. Of course we cheer for her hysterically at each attempt and the smile on her face is priceless. It seems like we have waited so long to get to this point and I can only imagine that there will be days ahead that we will wonder why we ever wanted her to start walking.
On another note, Lilly learned 4 new words over the weekend: yes, papa, zombie and oh-no. That makes for a total of 44 words in her vocabulary. Personally, I'm just glad she can finally say "yes" since it seems like she has been saying "no" to everything over the last several months.

2 comments:

Leah said...

OH, YEAH! How exciting!!

rachel vaughn said...

zombie??
those grandparens get excited to practice walking i guess--at least evalana's grandma does :-)