Some shaky first steps!

Lynsey has been busy growing up over the last 10 days:). She is starting to love it when we read to her - in fact, we have found that when she is whiney, we just have to pull out "I Love You Through and Through" and as soon as she sees it she starts smiling and crawling over as fast as she can. We think she has a crush on the little boy in the book:). We've been spending quite a bit of time with Ruthy and little Elijah before they move in a week - it's so sad that they are leaving! We'll have to find another best friend for Lynsey:(. She shrieks when she sees him (he's the boy in the pool in case you don't know who I'm talking about) and follows him around everywhere. Hopefully we can still see them from time to time - Westlock seems far away!

Now I don't know how people measure when their babies start walking, but I think I can safely say that Lynsey took her first real steps today! They were shaky and a bit unbalanced, but she definitely put one foot in front of the other unaided and reached her destination (fell into her destination really:)). It was very exciting to see! When Brian came home we tried to get it on video, but it was difficult to do because we really were both required to try to get her to walk so we'll have to wait until there's a third party around to properly get it on video. She did do it again in the evening, so Brian got to see it which is nice. I sort of think she might do what she did with her standing and take some time off now, though (she hasn't stood for more than a second or two since that day she did so well). She seems to lack some confidence. She does, however, like independence, so I think that once she realizes that walking can get her from point A to B with a better vantage point than crawling, she will try harder.