Baby's First Steps

So proud of my baby girl today!  This morning she took her first steps!  Three to be exact.  I set her down on her feet on the kitchen floor and let go how I do when I'm helping her balance and learn to stand on her own.  She stepped out with her left foot, to balance I thought, then her right foot, then her left foot, and then needed to grab hold of my arm to catch herself.  The whole time I had my arms under hers waiting to catch her and saying "Oh my God" over and over.  It was amazing!  And so in her fashion.  Whenever she decides to do something, she just does it.  She didn't take her first step--she took her first THREE steps.  Whenever she has done a first--first time rolling over, first time crawling, etc-- she doesn't do it in stages.  She simply does it straight out.  It totally took me by surprise.  I was just expecting to help her stand on her own.  Crazy :)   I have been saying for awhile that I thought she'd start walking between 9 and 10 months and sure enough she is 9 months and 6 days old today!  Granted, she's not walking yet, but first steps are a big step toward that (pun intended). 

Tonight, after my husband was home from work, I was working with her some more on walking.  For the last few weeks, my daughter has been acting like she's going to take off running when we have her walk while holding our hands.  Well, tonight she did!  My cousin had to leap off the sofa to get in front of my daughter in case she fell.  I was behind my baby, but she was going so fast that I could barely keep up with her in the crouched position I had to be in to be at her level.  This time I was ready for her to take some steps like before, but not for her to take off as fast as she did!  She must have taken like 10 steps, give or take a couple.  It all happened way too fast for me to count them, but she covered a good distance on the floor.  Especially if you consider that she only just took her first steps earlier today.  It was like if she lost her momentum she would lose her balance too.  I swear, it was like the baby version of running.  SO wish I would have had my husband filming it just in case.  If we had, then we'd have some pretty amazing footage right now  :)    Good job, baby girl!  Momma and dadda are so proud of you  :)