Betsy Bailey

Since he was mobile at 4 months and crawling by the time he was five months old, we thought for sure Jake would be walking by 9 months. But, nope – until very recently he hasn’t been all that interested. He’s quite a fast and efficient crawler. He’ll cruise around furniture, of course, but as soon as he needs to move away from the furniture, he drops to his knees and scrambles off.

But Jake hit a new milestone last night… just as recently as the weekend he would resist when I’d try to “walk” with him by holding his hands. He’d always want on his knees so he could crawl at high speed.

Something clicked last night though and he couldn’t get enough of walking around this way – he thought it was SO FUN and kept approaching me and grabbing my hands for more! more! In the past week he’s also started being more daring with his cruising – sometimes he’ll let go and stand unsupported for a few seconds. And we’ve all seen him take an unassisted step or two while cruising – tho it’s definitely a blink-and-you-miss-it moment and we wonder if we can even believe our eyes.