Walking!

After 6 months of cruising, 2 months of assisted walking, and 2 weeks of tentative steps, Clio has figured it out.

That's right, she's WALKING!


And, not to brag (I mean hey, walking at 14 months? Not actually so impressive), but she took it one step further and added in a little game of catch. In fact, the girl's got quite an arm.



The catalyst for all of this activity (finally)? A baby stroller. Starting in Italy, Clio became very interested in pushing her own stroller, a tricky maneuver that involves holding her up at waist height AND steering the stroller- a bit of a workout for the parent helping her. Back in Brooklyn, we discovered that the 18th street playground seems to have two abandoned doll strollers; it was there that I first discovered Clio could walk- if there was something out of reach that she really wanted, like a filthy abandoned doll stroller. Oh, and where crawling was also not so fun (the playground is sort of rough asphalt), necessitating another means of getting to the object of her desire.

After a few weeks of insisting to Dave (the non-believer) that a little stroller would make a perfect walker, I finally picked one up at the made-in-china store down the street (you know, like a dollar store where lots costs more than a dollar but everything is worth less) and Clio has happily been wheeling her baby around ever since.



Hey, now that I see it on the screen, I realize that Clio's pajamas kind of match the stroller fabric. This could be an outfit of the week, no?