She Walks
RM can walk. Over the last couple of weeks, it’s been a step here and there, but on Friday she took off for real. Several times she made it across the dining room, slowly, taking a step, balancing, then step - balance - step - balance - step - balance. She’s ten and one half months old today.
She took up this walking thing very differently than the boys did though. If we are sitting with her, holding her hands, and encouraging her to walk from one of us to the other, as soon as we let go she will drop down, and rapid fire crawl towards me or Dad or one of her Bubbas. She’s lightning quick when she’s crawling, and definitely knows the efficiency of it. The walking came almost when nobody was looking. She was playing quietly behind me while I was working. I glanced over just in time to see her moving slowly, concentrating on each step and not toppling over. When she finally did go down, then she looked over at me and just smiled.
I’m wondering if this is a sign of her personality. Is she going to be much more of the “let me do it myself” type than her brothers were? I’ve seen her focus on a toy or some other object, studying it, manipulating it, working very hard to make it do something or perform some function that it’s supposed to do, at least in her mind. She’s very patient and deliberate at so many of her actions.
She recently spent a good 10 minutes working at opening up the cell phone. It took a couple of good yells, throwing it down in frustration once, and several times having it pinch her fingers, but she never gave up. In the end, she opened it up all the way and was able to push buttons to her hearts content.
If so, she’s definitely my daughter. I’ve been known to drive myself nuts trying to accomplish something on my own. My husband and I are backwards, I’m the one who will drive around in circles, too stubborn to stop and ask directions. There are good and bad sides to passing on this trait to my daughter. She won’t need a lot of hand holding, and will probably always be pretty self-sufficient. I just hope she doesn’t become neurotic about needing to figure out everything on her own.
