One week into my "new" walking world...

Its excatly one week since Zara took her first steps...

She is finding life far less frustrating and there is certainly a whole new world to explore - we think she has made excellent progress!!!

Samuel turns 1

Today we met the Katz family at the park so that we could give Samuel his birthday present. As you can see, Zara was very keen to show him what to do with presents whilst he looked on rather enjoying his rice cake...

Look out world - I'm toddling!

For a while now we have been convinced that Zara is fully capable of walking but merely needs the confidence to get going. Over the past week, she has been taking two to three steps at a time and then as soon as she realises what she has done, simply sits down...

This morning she started "walking" on her knees (as you'll briefly see at the beginning of the video) I had visions of all her clothes being worn out at the knees in no time if this was to carry on for an extended time!

Then - lo and behold - this afternoon, while I was talking to Grannyannie on the phone...
she took: one-two.. stop.. three-four.. stop.. five-SIX steps and then sat down!

WOW - totally unprompted!!! Having seen her in action, gave me the incentive to "bribe" her to do it again and again and again. Using the remote and tons of praise we had a fabulous afternoon encouraging her walking. I phoned Chris and told him to hurry home as Zara was taking six to eight steps at a time! As soon as Daddy got home, the video camera was out and Zara pulled out all the stops for the camera... many more than eight steps at a time.

Its quite a long clip but bare with us - we are VERY proud and excited parents!!!