We’ve been wondering if Rosie would start toddling around before she reached her first birthday. And she beat that deadline by over two weeks!
Rosie impressed us with her mobility from early on, even learning to “crawl”:/news/2008/she-crawls/ at six months (four full months earlier than Lucy did). I guess she’s got to keep up with her sister somehow!
Lucy and I have been talking about Rosie learning to walk for some time now, anticipating that she will probably have the skill down pat in time for warm summer weather. “Lucy, in the summer,” I tell her, “you and Rosie can walk down the sidewalk holding hands. Won’t that be fun?” “Yeah,” says Lucy, “then Rosie won’t be scared.” Sounds good to me!
And now she has done it! On Friday, Jon saw her take a set of five shuffling steps — and we were delighted. And then she kept repeating the trick so easily! So of course we had to catch some of these first steps on video. Here there are, captured within two hours of her first steps last Friday:
(The ambient music is Nat Adderley’s 1960 “Work Song,” perhaps appropriately enough.)
Welcome to toddlerhood, Rosie! :)
Yay Rosie! It’s hard to believe she’s already coming on a year old!
I really noticed that Mo picks up things much faster than Kaia did. I think having an older sibling to try to keep up with is the reason. He’s counting earlier than she did, saying the alphabet earlier, and even learned how to use the computer earlier. I still can’t believe my 2 year old can navigate through his favorite websites like he does.
Aww, so cute! Looks like she’ll be a pro in no time. =)
Absolutely adorable video – so glad that Grandma Betty alerted me to it! Looks like there is LOTS of fun happening at the Boyds Nest – and those precious little birds are growing so fast – love to all from Minneapolis! Nancy
Yay! That music is perfect. I fully expected her to start scat singing at any minute :)
She totally looks like she’s dancing. But you really need to keep her away from drinking the hard stuff!
when I see the title to this video all I think of is: “lamby speaks!”