Walking!

Kay is walking all over the place now. We went to her therapist yesterday and she is pretty much dismissed. They will watch her once a month for awhile just to make sure she is continuing to get the skills every child gets like running, jumping, etc. The therapist wanted to see her walk, squat to pick something up and stand back up, stand up without using anything for support, and walk turning around or in a circle. Kay passed all this week. Now, we just wait for her to get stronger and start to use walking full time. She now continues to crawl when she wants to get somewhere fast. I would say she is up to walking maybe 70% of the time. We had her practice with walking on a squishy mat. She found it more fun to fall and bounce on it than practice walking. Our homework is to have her practice walking on softer, uneven surfaces like mulch in the next few weeks.

Kay also loves to go down the stairs now. She has the concept down and knows how to do it. We have to watch her closely because she likes to treat it like a slide and slide down instead of stopping herself with her feet.

Today at lunch Kay was throwing her food on the floor (like always) and I told her no (like always) only this time she looked at me with her big blue eyes, blew me a kiss, and clapped. Oh man... now I have to learn to not get wrapped around her little finger! Kids are just so cute!