Over the last week or so, Lauren Claire has really taken off walking. She has been taking a few steps here and there for about a month, but normally after just a few would drop down and crawl seemingly because it's much faster. She was only putting together 4 or 5 steps at a time until this week. Now, she's getting up and going much longer distances often times across the entire room, so long as her brother doesn't come and knock her over.
This afternoon, I took the kids out to play at a park and Lauren would climb up the stairs on the playset, walk over to the tube slide, climb in, sit down, slide down, crawl out, and walk back over to the stairs and do it all over again. She is really getting independent and does very well on her own until her brother starts running interference on her.
Colette took this video on Friday, September 26th. It was about 85 degrees out and a really nice day to take the opportunity to play in the water table one last time before it starts to cool off outside.
If you listen closely, you can also hear B singing the veggie tales song again.
Lauren, I sure am glad Grandma and Grandpa got to see you just a weekend ago. I babysat at your home and then we went to the Beaverdale parade. That evening we went to a birthday celebration party at Uncle Matt and Aunt Audra's home. You carefully walked all "around" things with at least one hand on the object to help you balance. If you crossed from one area to the next, you had to be able to reach out and touch the next most available "help" to walk a step or two. If you wanted to farther than a couple of steps you dropped to the floor and crawled. It was a hinderance since you had an adorable dress on and that made crawling more difficult. It was fun watching you analyze the situation! Grandma Cindy
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