Let's Hear It For Warm Weather!

Over the weekend, we were able to get out and about and enjoy the sun on our faces! This is the first time the weather has broken all year basically and it is always welcomed after a winter season of overcoats and overcast. As you can see here, E really likes to wear her glasses. She can wear these for hours!

Well, let me see...what's been going on....oh, yeah, our newest news is....SHE HAS TAKEN HER FIRST STEPS! It happened just the other night! We know she's been close for awhile now and so an addition to our evening routine has been to sit on the floor a few feet apart from one another and guide her "walks" back and forth between us. She can do this usually for several hours before she either loses interest or gets too tired. The really great part about this is she shows improvement every night! Well a few nights ago she took 2 steps without any help. As soon as she realized this made us giddy with excitement she did it a few more times! Since then we have been working with her (plus she practices at day care all day long, I'm sure) each night and she is really improving. We have begun to increase the distance between us and allow her to balance a bit more.

She can also stand in place for long periods of time - say 10 seconds. These truly are great times and we are really enjoying our little girl!

Now if we can all keep from catching the Swine Flu...ahem, I mean the H1N1 virus!