For a long while, Jan has been walking around, but she always need to hold on to something, like to her toy car or to a chair. Because of that, many of us had made wrong predictions of when she will be able to walk unassisted. Jan just seem to be delaying that milestone again and again, and we concluded that she found no value in that new skill, since walking seemed so much slower than her crawling (come to my house one day and leave the kitchen door open…before you can catch your next breath, she would have emptied all the kitchen cabinets). In fact, she crawls so much that I think she clocks at least 1km of crawling every day! Anyway, on Jan’s not walking, I wasn’t too anxious as I was dying to have a kid running around in the house yet.
Above: Jan’s photo taken in late May of her pushing her toy car. She also likes to push the dining chair and sometimes the stand fan…
One day before her birthday, Jan took her first and ONLY unassisted step…*sigh*…was she trying to do the minimum so that her parents can proudly wear the “kid walked before one” badge? Over the past few weeks, we coaxed her to take more steps. Now she has achieved a 800% improvement. Impressive ya? That means she doubled every week! At this rate, she will be able to walk 4,503,599,627,370,496 steps when she reaches two!!! (ok, bad joke. But if you are laughing, then you are not any less geeky than I am)
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