Friday 14 November 2014

To the kitchen AND BEYOND!

Duck can walk! He has been pootling around quite fast with minimal assistance for a few weeks now but last week he let go for good. He can walk, stop, turn around, walk around stuff and negotiate a floor full of Lego! I think I decided his official "walk day" was when he was 10 months and 6 days. Now the world is his oyster! He can get all the way from the toy kitchen to the real kitchen, and all the way to the back door!



To start with he was slightly apprehensive and only walked if we danced in front of him humming the Strictly Come Dancing tune. 

But now he's well and truly mobile. He can even stand up from the floor without holding onto anything and the smile of his face when he does it is the proudest smile I've ever seen.


Walking doesn't come without pitfalls though. Namely massive, awful looking bruises all over his skull. He's so confident and fast that when he falls, it's a big fall. Bambi was a lot more tentative and cautious, he still is in fact. There was a curb near our old house that spooked him for months and months after he could walk unaided! Duck would charge down that curb now without a second thought. In fact, I reckon Duck would walk off the edge of a cliff if you let him. He's, what's the word.... bold?

The problem with him being so bold, so fearless and so incredibly hefty and strong (I should've called the blog Bambi and Ox) is that it really takes quite some physical exertion to stop him walking off cliffs or climbing lamp posts or scaling the coffee table. And if you do get in the way of his fun... well, woe betide you. The yells of fury are equal in volume and distress to the yelps of pain when he lands nose first on a bookcase. 

I love the fact he can walk. I love popping into the kitchen and turning round to see his huge grin grinning up at me as if to say "Look! I came with you! Isn't walking BRILLIANT?". It is brilliant Duck, but please stop bashing your head quite so hard and making me check you for brain damage 6 times a day! 




4 comments:

  1. Toby has only just learnt to walk at 16 months (although his progress has been hindered in the last week by some unexplained foot/leg injury) but he has already managed to sustain a massive straight-line bruise right across his cheek from landing on a table edge at nursery and then two weeks late fell on the other side bruising and splitting the edge of his ear! Despite the constant fear of injury though, it's adorable to see them walking isn't it?

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    1. Aww poor Toby! Yes it's cute, but he's not stable and sensible enough for it to make life any easier yet! A few more weeks and I might be able to sit down and drink a cup of tea once in a while! :)

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  2. Walking opens up their world but when they start walking young they lack common sense and have no sense of spacial awareness! How cute does he look with a duck on his face?! :) x

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    1. Haha I know! He's adorable as a duck!!! :) His walking progress is so much faster than Bambi's though. He can already go up and down the little step by the fireplace!!!

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