First Steps!

Well, we're back in Indiana after a loooong drive through the night last Friday/Saturday morning.  A few big things have happened with Avery since our last post...Our final night in Charleston, Avery FINALLY got her first tooth!  Actually, she got her first 2 teeth.  Her bottom 2 came in at the same time.  We were so excited when we felt those little sharp teeth in her mouth-I had asked the Dr. at her 9mo check-up if it was maybe possible that she was born with no teeth...definitely not!  Thankfully the teeth broke through before we left because that would have been an awful trip home!  So the second big thing, which I'm sure you can guess from the title of this blog, Avery took her first real steps!!  It was so great...it happened last night, when Artie was home from work (yay!).  We had just had dinner and Avery came into the kitchen to watch her dogs play outside.  I was in the kitchen with her and Artie was putting shoes on in the living room, (we were getting ready to take our dogs for a walk) so we were both in the perfect position to see her.  Then, she just stood up and took 3 steps!  Artie couldn't see that I could see her and shouted at me that Avery was walking, then she stopped!  She didn't fall or anything, she just stood there like, 'Oh my gosh, what did I just do??'  She really loves crawling so we thought she wouldn't really be curious about walking for awhile.  But hey, the girl rolled over at 3 months and crawled at 7 months so why not start walking before 10 months!  Sometimes I think she's so much older than she really is because she's already into absolutely everything-and I mean everything...I guess that comes from her being mobile so soon!  We don't have footage yet of her taking real steps, but I put this video up of her cruising with her walker (she's such a show off only using one hand).  She stopped at the tv to watch one of her favorite shows, Handy Manny!  Hopefully I can catch some video of her taking more steps-or waving, which she's getting really good at when she wants to tell you hi!