Charlie is following in Audrey's footsteps. Which is to say that she's not making any. Audrey did not walk until she was 15 months old (one week AFTER she was supposed to walk down the aisle in a wedding). Charlie has shown similar laziness. (Because really, what else does a fourteen-month-old have to do? It's not like she's busy.) She does walk around on her knees, flailing her arms around, prompting Grandma Deb to call her "the Thalidomide baby". We asked the doctor about it and he said he actually hears that a lot about babies in homes with hardwood floors like ours, (not that their grandmas call the kids socially unacceptable names, but that the babies walk on their knees) and in addition to that, Charlie is apparently very flexible and often babies who are very flexible walk late.
Yesterday, Charlie started doing a new trick where she would just stand up in the middle of the room. No holding on to furniture or anything to help her up, just straight up standing in the middle of the room. She would do it over and over again, and laugh as we applauded her, and clap for herself until she fell and then start it all over again. Tonight, she did it again, but also took a couple steps! So, I think within the next few days, she'll be walking. Apparently, she wants to be impressive about it and skip the part where she hangs on to furniture first. We'll have to see how that works out!
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