Thursday, January 22, 2009

Mobilizing

It took little more than a week for Elise to go from just a few steps to being able to cross the house on two feet alone.




The music is We're All Connected from MMW's totally awesome kids album, Lets Go Everywhere - highly recommended for parents and kids!

Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Toddling into the new year!

Its been forever since we have posted anything on our blog. The holidays consumed us for a while, with grandparents in town, and a lot of activities beyond the normal routine. This news event was quite worthy of a posting, though:

In the past week of this new year, and since Elise has turned 11 months, she has been taking her first steps! She seems to be quite proud at times, looking to us with a big smile after successfully taking two or three steps on her own. It seems like everyday she is spending more and more time traversing the house, usually with one hand out touching the wall on occasion for balance, but also with her new little push-toy/car/walker thing which she holds on to and walks behind (until it crashes into a wall).

Here she is going up and down the hall, and working on some of those first steps: