These feet were made for walking

Leah's walking! Did I forget to tell you that? Oops, my bad.

Just a few days before Leah hit the 10 month mark, she took her first two steps on her own. She upped it to 7 steps the next day, and has been working those wobbly legs ever since! (That's right-- I've been withholding this update for two whole weeks!) It's just been within the past week that she opts to walk almost equally as often as she opts to crawl. In fact, working on those walking skills is what kept her so entertained during our airport delay this past weekend. She even does a pretty good job of crouching down from the walk and popping back up again (I use the phrase "popping back up" pretty loosely).

Naturally I've included some videos. The first doesn't show too much of her walking skills, but more of her "talking" skills. I like to call this video, "Look outside, Ducky!"

This next video is cute because she's carrying around her little blankie. I particularly like how she slings it over her shoulder while she's walking. What would we do without that nasty blankie that so desperately needs to be washed (but that I can't sneak away long enough to wash it)? And yes, she's a thumb sucker to boot.

Leah's started doing some other pretty silly things too, which I suppose you could classify as advancements (some of them are a bit of a stretch)

• Clicking her tongue at you when you click to her (We're thinking she might have some African tribal descent and that it might just be easier to teach her the click language... thoughts? suggestions?)
• Pointing. At EVERYTHING.
• Crawling and walking with toys in her mouth, instead of her hands (she spends too much time with our dogs)
• Going from sitting to standing without using anything to pull herself up
• Going from standing to crouching to standing again without being TOO weeble-wobbly
• Putting inflection in her voice and her noises so that it actually sounds like she is telling you something, sometimes very emphatically and sometimes in a whisper
• My mom swears that Leah points at their dog and says dog. I admit, she says something that sounds similar, but I'm skeptical as to whether the noise has actual meaning behind it, especially when (as stated in bullet number 2) she points at EVERYTHING
• Pulling things off of shelves and tossing them aside (shoes, dvds, books, etc... we're not very fond of this one)
• And, our very favorite, being able to play with her books and toys on her own for even longer periods of time (about half hour or so)