The Walking Bub

Ridge took his first couple steps on November 11th--a week after he turned one! He didn't take off walking right away though. He started with a few steps here and there, practicing each day (with some encouragement from the parents). At first we'd help him up to try to get him to walk to each other or to the couch. He would get really excited, take a couple quick steps and lunge forward, expecting us to catch him. He thought that was a pretty fun game. Eventually he started taking more and more steps. Finally, a couple days ago he was able to stand up without holding on to anything, and now he is walking all over the place. He even seems to prefer it to crawling now!