Wobbly Legs

Shabd has mastered the fine art of crawling at high speed. We've tried, to hold his hands and encourage him to walk, but he had decided that crawling was just so much more efficient and faster at getting to his goal. Especially when his goal is a forbidden room...like the study or TV room!

Despite the contentious debate out there around walkers, Akash could not resist and bought one for Shabd. It's quite cool...has a steering wheel, gears and lots of highly annoying noises. What a joy! Shabd outright ignored the contraption for the 1st month! With nounou's kind entreaties and her immense patience, Shabd spends some time in the walker.

These past two weeks, Shabd has become more steadier...and when he's intently caught up in examining his dad's cell phone he doesn't realise he's standing on his own, then he takes a step right and whoops...his hand reaches out to steady himself.

He's also learning about his centre of balance too...again with the help of a present from Papa. This time a little push car.

Every evening, we come home and are amazed at how much growth happened that day. We come home to a smiling boy, who knows he's growing and discovering the world around him. He's learning about wobbly legs and coordinating right and left, and taking small steps and giant leaps. Through these discoveries, he always looks up expectantly at me, smiling, his eyes asking, "Mum, did you see that?"

From bendy legs to wobbly legs...and from wobbly legs to toddling legs...every day has amazement in it with Shabd in our lives!