...And he's off !

As a follow-up from my last post, Caleb is now walking 100% on his own,  with no inhibition at all.  Those first steps I shared about a couple weeks ago occurred on a Sunday evening, and then that following Thursday (Sept.8) Caleb was standing by himself in front of me on the lawn to say goodbye to his Gigi (Regina), and he just walked away from me (took 12 steps), then repeated the same thing again right afterward.

The next day he took 24 steps (again on the rather uneven lawn surface), and from there he was off!  We went to the shoppe for lunch that day and he was walking all over the place as if he had been doing it for awhile - and of course, OH SO PROUD of himself!  I think its one of those things where he probably would have been capable of walking on his own a while ago, and we know his legs have been strong and sturdy enough for a long time, but it was just a question of him deciding that he was ready to take those steps without our help.  I can now let him spend more time playing outside without worrying about him getting filthy and trashing his shorts scooting around!  Here are a few videos from the past two weeks:

Day 1 all on his own.  He was a bit more into the bread than the walking here, but I thought it was still cute :)  The finger in front of the camera at the end of the video is Caleb touching the camera lens..  And sorry for the shaky camera skills...