to want to "pretend" that my DD learnt to walk on mothers day?!

[pamelat]

DD 14 months and a few days.

On Thursday she took 2 very wobbly solo steps, yesterday she took 6 wobbly ones and today she has taken 10!!!

I am so proud of her. She clapped herself afterwards. Little pumpkin.

She even got up to standing by herself and took a few steps to me unprompted, surely thats "walking"? Albeit very very wobbly.

Can I say she learnt on mothers day please?

Or am I lying to myself. Is this not true walking yet or did she learn on Thurs last week??????

Bless

of course you can. well done her!

Aww bless!! YANBU Only counts when the number of steps goes into double figures

oh say it! its not really a lie as such beause she DID walk today (just not the first time but shhhh!)

Claim today!

i always said they were walking when it was their main mode of transport. but i just didnt want to be overly competitive! but i think mother's day is perfect so you should definitely claim it!

I would say it anyway - my dd really did on mothers day many moons ago. She was 17 months old at the time - it was a nice present as i was so bloody sick of carrying her about!

Happy mothers day!

???? nowwearefour

sorry what wasnt clear?? i was just saying that i waited until they crawled more than they walked before saying they had learned to walk- i say dd2 walked on my first day back to work as she walked around the house a few times and didnt crawl- she had been building up to it for a while. but i was always v v defensive about not trying to say my dd was 5 months old when she walked or something equally ridiculousyou sometimes here people say. i was trying to say i wasprob being silly and wrong and why not say mothers day was the day of learning to walk! that's all!

Aaah how lovely!

Unless you write it down you will never remember the date anyway, so it will always be Mothers' Day that she walked for you.

(DS1 took his first step unaided on a day that was momentous for another reason. I thought "That's handy - I'll never forget the day he walked for the first time." He is now 8 and I am buggered if I have a clue what day it was!)