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Well, not quite, but he's very close.
He's only been crawling for a month O_O
We
were playing the game where I say "Can the baby...stand by himself?"
and let go of him, and catch him before he loses his balance. He thinks
it's a great game, and lately has been able to balance for a little
while before falling over. This time however, he not only stood, he
interrupted my starting to tell him what a clever balancing baby he was
by running straight at me, giggling maniacally all the way. Took him
all of three steps to reach me, I yelled "HE'S WALKING!" at Josh (who
insists that there was definite squealing involved, i deny this), Josh
came running over to try to convince Tao to walk to him but Tao had
decided we were obviously playing chasey and crawled away as fast as he
could, giggling all the way :)
He'd spent most of yesterday
trying to balance by himself, I do have a photo currently still on the
camera of him trying to balance, though the problem was he's leaning on
the futon coz he lost his balance when he turned around to see what I
was doing as I was trying to get a photo of him standing. Typically I'd
had my back turned at the time so when I turned back all I'd seen was
him standing with a toy in each hand.
But yeh. All today today
he's been pushing himself into a standing position and trying to walk,
though he hasn't been able to take more than three steps at any one
time, usually he falls down after one or two. He's taken an interest in
physics, kept dropping things on the floor, and we would pick it up and
put it back so he could drop it again. He pulled out The Tao of Physics
from the bookshelf (though I reckon he just did that coz it has his
name on it ;) and a referencing guide. He seems quite interested in how
his balance is affected by gravity as well, because I watch him trying
jumping, turning around quickly, walking etc and seeing what makes him
fall. It is an extremely fascinating thing to watch and I have no idea
what's going on in his little head (big head actually, it's big compared
to his body :), or even if he is in fact consciously carrying out those
experiments, they're just inferences I'm making from observation.
I'm
wondering though if he will actually walk because I know he can, or
whether it's just something he's toying with like when he started
thinking about crawling at 6 months but ended up putting it off til last
month due to teething. Though I don't think he's actively teething at
the moment. This is exciting XD