Gen's Walking!*

Well, at long last, we finally declare that Genevieve is walking. Clearly she didn't want to rush into this major milestone too fast...

*We define walking as willingly taking 7 steps between people without holding onto anything.

About 3 months ago, Gen would take a couple of steps between people. For about a week. Then she decided not to do that anymore. She had a few weeks where she didn't even want to walk holding our hands. I feared she would never walk. People would say, "I bet she's running all over the place now!" and we had to say no. I even read this week that 90% of children are walking by 15 months old (she was 15 months old this past Tuesday...). As many times as we told ourselves that she would walk when she was ready, let's face it -- we were ready! We have learned through this that she is a very cautious child -- a trait that will probably serve her well in life.

So hooray!