Walk This Way

It's official, August 29th - we have a walker on our hands! Claire has been walking while holding onto both of my or Matt's (or whomever will lend them) hands for months, and more recently been able to balance while holding onto only one hand of ours. She's been taking steps too - 4 here, 7 there, 10 even a few times. This afternoon though, she made the full plunge into walking! We were grilling at the neighbors and she was walking down the driveway. At first I counted 15 steps, then 23! Can that be full-fledged walking? Then we came home for nap time. I set her down standing up next to the big exercise ball, went to the bathroom to wash my hands, and I came back out to find her walking over to the other side of the room to get her hands on some pencils. I just watched and stopped her right before she squatted down to pick them up. "C'mon mama, all that work for nothing?!?" I'm sure she was thinking! Later this evening, we went outside again and there was no crawling around - Claire was only walking. If her A. motivation to walk and B. so many steps without falling down, and C. her getting back up to walk when she does fall doesn't mean it's official, I don't know what does?!

(Matt and I took video of her in the neighbor's driveway, so when I figure out how to put that on the blog, I'll add it to this post! But, this is all you get for now because it's a Sunday night, and almost time for bed.)