And she walks

I have hesitated to post about this milestone in Marin's life first because I am still in denial and second because I don't want to be one of those parents that acts like because their kids does something early it must be because of their amazing parenting style.  But believe me I am under no misconception that my "amazing parenting" has anything to do with Marin taking her first steps.  Shawn and I have not been practicing with her because she is a baby and we are happy having her that way but she is quite determined and it seems her main goal in life right now is to keep up with her brother so walking seems logical I guess. 

One day after Marin turned 8 months old she took two steps out of the blue.  Shawn was trying to get a picture of her standing in the middle of the room on her own because she looks so cute.  We were both watching her and the next thing we knew she took two steps.  We both looked at each other and after the shock wore off we decided it didn't count that some sort of fluke took over her body for a brief moment.  That was about a week ago and since then she has begun to hone her skills.  She took two more steps this weekend and now she will take several steps in a row then she will stop remain standing and take a couple more.  It is silly to see because she is just so small.  Shawn and I have both pleaded with her to remain a crawling baby a little longer but it seems our pleas have fallen on deaf ears. 

One thing that does not surprise us is that if you prop her up and try to get her to walk she won't but if you leave her alone she will do it when she wants so getting her on video is pretty difficult but we will keep trying. 

Right now while I am posting about her walking she walked from a chair to her little walker she pushes around.  She will walk all over the apartment with the walker and at the rate she is going she might be walking everywhere without it sooner than we would like.