Steps to Success

Although Natalie has been showered with many (at least 4) modes of walking assistance transportation, she prefers to rearrange our house with bar stools  her high chair, ottoman's, kiddo potty...you name it. She will move it. She will even use a slick magazine on the floor and scoot as fast as possible. Most days she doesn't really like my choice of music on the radio and constantly changes it to the most obnoxious political garbage that is constant screaming about the current administration. Not the most uplifting choice.

Natalie has been taking strides to walking. She took about 20 steps yesterday in a row. As long as she has something in her hands to distract her, she can go farther. Time will tell if she takes off full steam ahead.

We hit the zoo once again. This time Grandparents joined us. That makes it at least 5 trips for Natalie. This was a special trip. Natalie actually enjoyed the animals. She watched each one and stayed awake through he whole thing. She did take a snooze as we left the gates. Always a good ride home with a sleeping baby. 

As far as car or van rides go, they are still miserable. She goes from happy pants to screaming rants. It's bad. I keep hearing there is hope for our car ride futures. We look forward to turning her around at the bare minimum time/weight. She has already hit the weight minimum requirement, now just need her 1 year birthday to get here. Ideally we would hold off for another 6 months, but we feel that if we are more likely to lose our mind or get in an accident due to the chaos in the back seat, she is safer, as we are all, if she turns around.