Sonia isn't walking but ...

Sonia (and I) survived her first week of Daycare. I wouldn't say it was great (her "teacher" rated it as FAIR) but also said that it got a little better every day. Thursday, she still didn't eat much of anything there and had some tears during the day (and lots when I dropped her off) but they said that there were also some smiles and giggles during the day. She's eating a LOT in the evenings and I'm feeding her breakfast before she goes so no big worries yet on the food side. Hopefully in another week or few it will be happy days. We'll give it a bit of time...

The good news is that I had today off work and also Monday and part of Tuesday so we'll have 4.5 days together. Today we had a doctor's appointment but otherwise just played. It was beautiful outside (70s) so we went to the park and took a long walk in the stroller too.

So, the progress on walking...

Sonia isn't walking alone yet. She is creeping along anything she can grab onto (walls, furniture, toys, people) and getting stronger at walking holding onto just one of my fingers. Last night, she started standing up by herself without holding anything. She moves from sitting, to kneeling, to squatting, and then slowly straightens her back to standing. She stands there and claps for a moment and then either grabs onto something or sits back down.

Her latest crazy act was tonight. We were watching her 20 minutes of Elmo video that she gets every couple days. She was creeping around the coffee table as usual and I was relaxing on the couch. She pulled a pillow off the couch and was stepping up on it while holding the coffee table. Ok, nice fun. The next moment she'd lifted a leg and pulled herself to kneeling on the coffee table. She was clapping away so proud of herself. I had my camera close so I snapped a picture before grabbing her off the table and moving all pillows away from the area! What a brave girl :o)