Powering on

The baby's walking has really improved over the last few days.

When I got home from work on Friday, the husband told me how much better she was, that I'd be amazed at how she is going.

She isn't just taking a few steps now - she will stand and purposefully walk places. She pushes the computer chair around, she walks through the kitchen, she stands and bounces and dances and holds on to things for like a minute without moving.

The last few weeks, the husbands parents have been meeting us at the markets on a Sunday mornings. They were pretty excited to see her just get up and go. Of course, this makes it a little harder in that she knows where she wants to go and expresses her hurt feelings if you stop her. Of if you want to keep her in stroller. Or if you don't want to walk with her to our bedroom so she can play with the toilet brush.

When they came past this afternoon to help the husband build a bike rack, his dad told me that he actually got  a little teary watching her get up and go. And when I told the husband how lovely this was, he told me he had butterflies on the Friday watching her get around.

Ladies and gentlemen, we have a toddler.