The title of this post means nothing except alluding to the fact that I would have rather posted it on New Year's Eve. Because it was on that day that my daughter Grace took her first steps on her own.
Officially on 12/12/11 she took her first steps walking independently from one person to anther but from that point on, through the 31st she had only taken 2-3 steps and it was always with coaching and assistance of some sort. On New Year's Eve however, I was in the kitchen and Kristy was in the living room and out of the corner of my eye I saw Grace pulling up to stand using the activity center in our dining room, all normal things that we have seen her do before. Then, out of nowhere, she was standing in the middle of the dining room. No one coached her to come to them, no one helper her stand or to start walking, she was just exploring this new mode of transportation on her own. Then, as I was calling to Kristy to see if she saw it happen, Grace plopped down on her bum. She did it, she walked on her own!!! Right after, she was getting up with assistance of a stool we have at the kitchen counter and walked 10-15 steps to Kristy in the living room. We were both in tears. What a proud moment for us.
Not to take anything away from our other daughter, we had a proud moment with her as well over the holiday break. Abby for the first time rolled over from back to belly. This was more than Grace did at first. We were doing lots of belly time with Grace and she rolled belly to back first, and really struggled with the other. Abby did this on the Monday after Christmas. Since she has rolled both was and has put rolls together going 3 or 4 times, before being stopped by an obstacle.
Our girls are really making great progress.
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