Rachel's learning to walk!

hello everyone - just wanted to let everyone know out there in cyberworld that my littlest daughter is starting to walk! we figured she would try walking earlier since she is the youngest and has a big sister who can do cool things like follow mommy into the next room, run around with dad and jump off of couches in the living room. so what's a 10 month old to do?? practice until she gets it.... and that's exactly what rachel's been up to the last couple of weeks.


on June 5th, she started taking her first steps. of course the camera is never around to capture the very first ones so she was tired and more "falling" than walking once we got the camera going.

then she started practicing her speed crawling

Then this past week she really seemed to get the hang of it and started to taking lots of steps

And now she's pretty much got it down. now the fun part is lots of practice!!! and she is. she's walking everywhere. lots of times she gets tired and just sits down and plays but the cool thing is now she can go where she wants. when i'm in the kitchen, she'll walk in and play with the frig magnetics. sometimes she likes to play in natalie's room and we'll find her half way down the hall headed in that direction.