And He's Off

Kaelen has started to walk. It is so exciting and sad because once they start walking they are no longer little babies. Kaelen took his first step months ago. He took it on February 24th, 2009. Since then he has just taken two or three steps here or there. Since his birthday and standing with his ball popper he has started to walk. It took him only 24hrs from getting his ball popper to walk. On Monday the 6th he started walking about 5 steps at a time. He would walk from one point to another. On Tuesday he walked across the room. If you place him across the room from a toy he will walk to the toy. Every time he walks he seems to get better at it. He will stop himself from falling at times. It is so cute to watch him walk. He still crawls everywhere too but it won't be long before he just wants to walk. He really hates wearing shoes and so it will be interesting to see when he decides that it isn't fun walking with out them.

He cannot stand up in the middle of the room yet. He has to be somewhere where he can pull himself up to standing and then he will walk. My good friend DeAun said that her son when he was a boy walked for about 3 months before he figured out out to stand up in the middle of the room. I think that we might be like that. He has not tried yet to stand up in the middle of the room. He still will just find something to pull himself up too.

Kaelen yesterday was carrying this stuffed dog that my parents bought for him around the house. He would hug it as he was walking. It was the cutest thing. I tried to get a video of it but he threw it down once I started filming. Oh well we will try again. We are so proud of him though. We all love just sitting around watching him walk. It is so fun.

Kaelen walking just a little bit. He is a little wobbily in this video.

In this video Kaelen walks across the room. I love how he will shuffle with his left foot. He does not have perfect balance yet to walk normal yet so he will step with the right foot and shuffle the left. So very cute.