Officially Walking

Everyone practices walking with Alli these days - mommy, daddy, Marcie, the twins... I'm sure Gage and Reegan even try to help her walk. Last night Kim and I watched her practice by herself. It was the first time we had seen this. She had gotten to a standing position by using the office door, then she let go and walked around it and out of the office in order to get to her exersaucer table. We were quite impressed. She did this a couple of times - leaving the object that she used to help her stand and just walking away. So I think at this point, we can officially say she's walking. We tried to video tape walking between us, but not sure how well that came out. She was taking a good 12 steps or so to get from one of us to the other.

Then Bagheera got jealous so we incorporated him into our play. No more practicing walking, now we were going to practice throwing. We gave Alli Bagheera's football and let her throw it. Then we would let Bagheera go get it. Kim or I would take it from Bagheera and give it back to Alli and let the fun happen all over again. I was pretty impressed that she tried to throw the ball and it actually went forward! Ah, the family fun!