Callie's First Steps!!

3 days before turning a year old, Callie took her first steps!  We were honestly surprised because she was not a super-fast cruiser and didn't even push her walker-toys super smoothly.  Before Caeden walked, he would cruise pretty quickly around anything.  And he pushed his little push-toys wherever he wanted, pretty quickly.

Callie still wasn't doing either of these things super well.  So I totally thought she'd be 13-14 months before she was walking.  Well, I was wrong!  You know how most babies start out taking 3-4 steps between mommy and daddy?  And then gradually increase that number?  Callie went from taking NO steps, and being very cautious (as described above) to going straight to 7-8 steps.  The first time she took steps she was standing in the middle of our living room by herself and took about 8 steps to the couch.  And never went back!  That's about what she's done ever since!

Of course there are times she'll only get a few steps in, lose her balance and fall.  But from that moment forward, she was taking multiple steps halfway across the rooms.  It was crazy!  A week and a half later, she's pretty much walking wherever she wants to go!

Here's a quick video of the first day she started walking: