We were getting pretty sick of hearing stories about 10 month old babies walking.  At 14 months Remi was content with crawling.  Why bother walking if you are lightning fast as a crawler?

She has been standing for 2-3 months.  Teasing us with the idea of walking by bouncing up and down as if dancing to music.  She would even cheat by walking while holding on to furniture.  Despite our best efforts to encourage an untethered step Remi wasn’t interested.

About 3 weeks ago she took 2 steps for mommy.  She let go of her furniture support and let her legs take her for a brief test.  We thought she was ready to enter the bipedal world but there was to be no more excitement for another 2 weeks.  Early this past week Remi took 9 wobbly steps to a pillow as daddy sat in shock.  By Thursday it only took a little encouragement to “stand up” and she would walk with purpose.

By this time next week I expect she will be running agility courses.

At 1 year & 18 days old Remi crawled to her toy stroller (loaded with baby Grover) stood up and began “walking” behind the stroller.

It’s not quite as momentous as her first real steps but her first assisted steps are still pretty damn special.