Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Breaking News

One year and one week after Xander was born he took his first steps!  Of course you are never ready with a camera when something like this happens, so the video of his first steps is more like a video of his 8th step and beyond, but it's close enough!

Mama has been helping Xander to practice his walking skills by helping him to stand up, then with one hand, guiding him to walk along beside her.  She wanted to avoid the stooped-over two-handed help-a-child-walk process, and it worked!  All she was trying to do was to get him to stand unassisted.  So she got him to stand up, then let go of his hand... more like pried his hand off of hers.  Then, instead of standing there as Mama hoped he would, Xander surprised her by walking to her and giving her a hug! It was so awesome!

The video was taken with a laptop set on a counter, so the perspective could have been much better if a real person was manning the camera.  Dada, unfortunately, was at work when this happened.  But he's super excited nonetheless.