She walks

Ruby walked on Sunday! By herself! Several times!

I've known for a few months that Ruby could walk but I never could get her to the point of doing it by herself. Walking just wasn't interesting to her. She can walk on her knees and crawl rather well and she likes to hold onto the fabric of my pants as we walk around the house together. As the boys take a hand each the three of them bramble around the house together. But we couldn't get her to stand on her own much less walk.

On Sunday I was cleaning up after dying my sister's hair two lovely colors of black and red when I heard a yell from my one of my good friends, Waffle, behind me. "Oh my gosh! Oh my gosh she's walking!"

I whipped around and saw with great shock my little girl walking by herself not just one or two steps but several as if she's been doing it for a while. We got a few more walking moments and a video (which I'm still trying to figure out how to upload from my phone) when she made it clear she was not interested in walking any more.

Since then I've tried to stealthy remove my fingers from her little iron fists but she gets very angry with me when I do. Right now I'm content in knowing she can walk and not concerned that she doesn't but look forward to the day when my arms will get a break before the next child comes along.