Investigating Feet
Our little man has been standing up for a long time now. He would start in a sitting position, grip my fingers, pull up, lock his knees and grin his huge gummy grin. Recently he started a new phase: he would wobble, his knees would turn to jelly, basically he looked like a newbie at the whole standing routine. It was not very impressive when I was showing him off, bragging that he’d been doing this for months. But, of course, keeping your knees locked is fine for standing still but you need to loosen up your joints for walking.
So he is walking. He holds his Daddy’s fingers, leans forward and takes one step after another. I clap my hands and he beams at the applause. Today they circled his nursery. Later he shuffled along holding on to the couch. They call it “cruising” when a baby walks by holding on to the furniture. He’s less certain about that and just did a couple of shuffle steps, mostly staying in one place. We are encouraging and tell him backwards is a valid direction.
He is much more confident about walking when he has a secure grip on our fingers. He holds them like the handlebars of a motorcycle. Potato potato potato. Vroom vroom.
