walking!

soooo i think we're going to have a walker on our hands pretty soon! a few people have said we can consider her a "walker" now, but i'm waiting just a bit for her to really master her skills before i call her that. she's been doing a great job walking to brandon and me, but she usually gets too excited and ends up diving for whoever she's going for. her little legs can't keep up with her top half. and of course she's terribly trusting and knows we'll catch her. so she normally takes about 4 steps and dives excitedly. we were happy with this though b/c she's still so tiny! however, yesterday we were doing some work in the front yard and brought the girls (fin and ruby) out there with us. finley looooves mulch. loves it. she does an ok job at not eating it and just playing with it. the problem with her playing outside is it's no fun to crawl on the concrete and she's not a huge fan of grass. sometimes we put pants on her (under her dress) so she wont skin her knees, it's just soooo flipping hot out already.

anyways we'd peek at her playing on our walkway ever couple minutes and one time we did and she was just walking along! her steps were so thought out, meticulous and you could just tell she was working so hard, her little face so concentrated. she would take a couple steps, stop and gather herself. her bottom never touched the ground. not sure what she was going after, but it got trickier when she reached the grass. then she turned around and came back! the coming back part was not quite as smooth, but she still did a great job. she kept it up the rest of the afternoon too. once we were inside we'd catch her letting go of the couch or coffee table and take some steps or just stand up in the kitchen and walk.

i can't believe our baby is just about walking. it *almost* makes me sad. i feel like this is the last BIG milestone for her to hit. i know she's going to learn so much still, but this seems like the last of the major ones. don't get me wrong, talking is huge also. i just see our tiny girl waddling around and i can't believe how much she's changed in the last 11ish months. maybe i'll call her a walker when she mostly chooses to walk over crawling.