In the last five days he has progressed from mostly crawling to mostly walking. On Sunday he was still just walking in straight lines between objects. Every day he was doing a little longer walks and he waved his hands 'like a drunken sailor' to keep his balance.
Here he is on one of those walks....
The thing holding him back from full time walking was that he couldn't get himself to standing without having something to pull up on. He would get so frustrated when he was sitting in the middle of the room and couldn't stand up. I happened to be videotaping him when he stood up mid-room for the first time on Thursday. It was soooo cool to see it! Here are a sequence of pictures taken from the video (sorry I don't know how to to upload video)
Here he had just landed on the floor and rolled forward to stand up...
One leg is up.....
Here comes the second leg and he leaned forward for balance....
Then a squat and another re-balancing to be able to stand....
Almost there---
Done! He was not impressed with himself- he just kept on walking....
He hasn't stopped walking since he mastered this- he is quite a go-getter!
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