First Steps

Avalon is not fully walking yet, but she has taken her first steps. She took three solid steps last week, July 8th, and then tonight, July 14, she took as many as 8 steps. We did capture a few of these steps on video as well, as shown above. The few times that Avalon took 6 or 8 steps, she was walking towards Ukki (Grandpa Niemi) and Mummi (Grandma Niemi). Whenever she walks towards Mommy or Daddy, she gets so excited that she just dives forward. Avalon seems to be anxious to walk and is getting more and more daring, so stay tuned.

On another note, Avalon climbed her first flight of stairs on Monday, July 13. We didn’t have any stairs at our apartment in North Carolina so she didn’t have any incentive to climb them until we arrived in MN this summer. Her first trip all the way up the stairs was Monday morning when Mommy was still sleeping and Avalon was looking for her to get her morning meal.