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to be so excited that DD just walked?

26 replies

tethersend · 03/08/2010 15:18

At the grand old age of 20mo, she just got up and walked across the room

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Mishy1234 · 03/08/2010 15:20

Yay, well done to your DD! It's such a great moment, isn't it.

thisisyesterday · 03/08/2010 15:32

yay! well done her

dinkystinky · 03/08/2010 15:33

The first steps are a really exciting thing! Congratulations.

You do realise there will be no stopping her now though

withorwithoutyou · 03/08/2010 15:33

Oh yeay!! well done to her!!

sanielle · 03/08/2010 15:35

Yay! and get busy moving everything you own up high

CatIsSleepy · 03/08/2010 15:36

fab
we were all very excited when dd2 took her first steps about a month ago...she seemed pretty pleased with herself too

listenandlearn · 03/08/2010 15:37

URNBU its so exciting,enjoy

Flisspaps · 03/08/2010 15:41

YADNBU

ChippingIn · 03/08/2010 15:43

It's mad just how exciting it is, isn't it

20 months though - does she have an uber chubby little bum??

Is she only, eldest, middle, youngest???

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tethersend · 03/08/2010 15:47

Thanks!

Obviously she is my first, as I have no clue what I'm doing- frankly, I'm just pleased I managed to keep her alive for 20mo.

She's been a bottom shuffler and has not an ounce of fat on her. Just like me (arf).

I thought she'd take a couple of baby steps or something first, but she just got up and walked like she'd been doing it all her life. TBH, it's freaking me out a bit now. She seems tall.

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mumbar · 03/08/2010 15:56

now for the next lesson - pushing a pushchair while trying to control a dd who wants to run in every which direction except the one your going!!!! Its brilliant fun

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tethersend · 03/08/2010 15:59

Shit.

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Gibbon · 03/08/2010 16:09

Aww tether!

DD1 was 19 months and did just that, I was on the phone and she just casually got up and walked after seeming like it was never going to happen.

aquavit · 03/08/2010 16:14

yanbu, not only is it very pride-making but I found it made it easier for dd to potter about independently than when she was crawling

mumbar we have a pushchair solution...dd insists on pushing it and we lock the front wheels so she can only go in a straight line...

ChippingIn · 03/08/2010 16:17

Tethersend 'frankly, I'm just pleased I managed to keep her alive for 20mo'

Ahhhh a bottom shufler - have been thinking about taking it up myself!! It does seem a good way to keep it trim!

It IS very freaky when they start walking like that, it's like they've been practising when you've not been looking!! I hope you are taking some video of her!!

They do seem tall don't they, watch out for when you can see her head over the end of the settee or something that you never have before - that's always a little odd too!!

KnitterNotTwitter · 03/08/2010 16:22

oooh - congratulations to your DD - very clever

2shoes · 03/08/2010 16:40

yanbu

lazarusb · 03/08/2010 19:58

I bet she's been secretly walking around behind your back for the last year every time you leave the room

hogshead · 03/08/2010 20:01

congratulations! I felt the same on Saturday when DS took 6 steps all on his own for the first time!

Unfortunately i was at my local Fun Farm and made a show of myself doing a little dance and making wild clapping noises!

littleduck · 03/08/2010 20:11

DD is 15 months and took her first couple of unaided steps last week - has been walking us round the flat holding onto our hands between having little goes on her own, falling down on her bottom and then giggling.

We got the vid camera out tonight - she seems to have got a lot better at the walking in the last day or two and I kind of wish we had got the camera out earlier, so we could have captured the little totter/fall on bum/giggle thing she had going. Still, we captured her toddling back and forth and posing for the camera and I think we did get one fall on the bum and giggle for posterity!

Very cute - and at least we won't have backache from bending over so she can hold our hands whilst she walks up and down the flat!

mumeeee · 03/08/2010 20:43

Well done to your DD. Bottom shufflers dotend to be late walkers. DD1 was 21 momths before she walked and like your DD tethersend. She just got off her little chaire and walked across the room, By 2.5 she was walking up mountains!

MarthaQuest · 03/08/2010 20:55

Congrats!

I had a bottom shuffler, who walked at 16 months and is now 18 months.

But I miss her bottom shuffling so much!

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tethersend · 03/08/2010 20:57

Cheers- I know it's such a little event in the grand scheme of things, but I can't get over the fact that the thing I grew in my uterus has just walked across the room.

She is so pleased with herself... one of her first tasks was to take the keys from the table and put them in the bin. She has obviously been waiting to this for quite some time. She was kind enough to alert me to the fact by standing in the living room shouting "Keys, where are you?". It only took me an hour and a half to find them

I'm getting a tiny glimpse of the future, aren't I?

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shufflebum · 03/08/2010 21:05

You have given me hope, a 16month bottom shuffler here praying he walks sometime soon. He hates the buggy and loves being carried but unlike your DD has a few spare pounds!

mathanxiety · 03/08/2010 21:11

At least at 20 months she might have a little more sense or be a bit more responsive to instructions than the average beginner . I always wonder why they start walking (which was followed in my DCs' case by climbing bookcases, etc) while they have absolutely no common sense.