Sarah came home from work today and Daisy asked her, "Did you know that Margaret can walk?"
Then, Daisy put Margaret gently on the ground, where she proceeded to walk five steps over to greet her just returned Mommy.
I was in a meeting this afternoon at 6:07 pm when the SMS came in, "She can walk."
I rushed home to find that Margaret was being kept awake by her mother (thank goodness!) to perform her new skill which she happily obliged to do, to my delight, with her hands held high above her head, as if in celebration.
We then spent the next twenty minutes trying to catch her walking on video, but instead managed only to record footage of her not walking. The closest we got was what you see above, which is M actually walking about three steps, but with me (and the camera) too close to actually be able to clearly see her ambulating unsupported.
Slightly more humorous was when she grabbed hold of the camera in her hands, wrested it away from Daddy, then, upon careful contemplation of its control panel, slowly and deliberately pressed the red record button. Then, as if that wasn't enough, after waving the camera around for a bit and crawling around with it in her hand, she carefully pushed the red button again to stop recording and left it on the ground. The result is the video you see below.
I call it, "Video Self Portrait of a Baby."
It's enough to induce nausea, but amusing nonetheless.
*sigh* our baby is growing up so fast!
I can only hope that she uses her new skill to walk always forward and always towards us.
It's November 17, 2008, Margaret is 1 year 1 week old exactly, and she walked for the first time today.
8 comments:
congrats! gong xi gong xi! hooray! she is growing up! she is a toddler now!
congrats
philip
Sigh! Since I now won't be able to teach her to walk, we'll focus on daily trips to the library to teach her to read.
Welcome to toddlerhood!!! How exciting that she has taken her first steps. She'll get steadier and more confident over the next few weeks, and then hold on to your hats! Congratulations to ALL of you! :)
Wow...there's no going back!! What a moment! More video, please...but at the hand of an adult (urp...) XXOO
Fantastic videos- both of them! Congratualtions Margaret, Look out World! The look on her face when she's walking is SUCH pride! I love it!
wahoo! go M, go! If she's anything like the V, in a year and a half she'll be treating the world as her trampoline. Have fun, guys, and I'm glad your constant-bending-over back pain is about to ease up...
OMG, we're dying!! How cute is she taking her first few steps! And she looks so proud of herself too ... sigh :)
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