First independent steps @ 13 mths 2 wks!!!

I was starting to worry...


She took 3 steps at a time towards Papa on our living room floor, and a couple more times towards Mummy or the TV bench between 9pm and 10pm!

Small steps, sometimes dragging the foot, sometimes crawling fractions of an inch with toes, and the rare times when she lifted the whole foot and puts it forward!

Incidentally, we bought her a pair of fitting and less slippery (solid rubber base) shoes from Metro yesterday. Wow, children's shoes are expensive, $29.90! It's the most comfortable, smooth interiors, soft leather, solid rubber base. We tested a couple of designs and sizes, she's using the smallest size 13 with about 1cm of space at the toes.

Got myself a shopping trolley with folding seat @ $19.90 but one of the wheels came off when Lougong was rolling it home! Hope I can find out what's wrong and fix it.

I think she's been walking on our fingers pretty well. It's just that she hasn't done it by herself, and wants to hang on to us. I've also brought her down to playground nearly everyday for the past 4 days where she sees many other little children, one who's only slightly bigger than her, walk on their own. Also, I've begun to let go of one finger, and tell her, 1 hand only, and she can still cruise pretty well. And I think that was what did it for Ning's walking too :)

Last night, Mummy coaxed Ning, saying she can walk really well, even without hands. Asked her to walk to Papa, just a few steps. At first she was uncertain, wanted to sit down or hold Papa's hands. So we pat the floor in front of her. And when she inched a little, we clapped and made a big deal of it! Then she stood up on her own and tried a few more times!

Ah, happiness!!!