She's Walking!

So, Emmy has finally started taking some steps! She's been walking around holding onto things (walls, the sofa, the ottopersons, Charles and me, etc. etc.) for a while now. She's often acted like she wanted to let go and walk on her own, but every time she did, she would take one step and sit down. We decided we'd call it walking on her own when there were at least two steps in succession.

Emmy spent most of last week at Su-Su and Big Daddy's. Su-Su reported that she took two steps on Friday (so Emmy was 14 months and 1 day old!). We went up Sunday to spend a couple of days and bring her home, and on Monday she took four steps in a row. Woohoo!!

Since then she is getting braver. She will try to walk short distances unprompted. She still doesn't do more than 5 or 6 steps max, but she's getting there!

Here she is above walking from me to her Daddy at church. Then, here she is after she was done clapping because the crowd of friends standing around here yelled and clapped. She was a little alarmed at first by the whooping, but then she was excited and started clapping, too. So cute!