From Monday to Monday

A lot can happen between Mondays.
A few days before Christmas Linnea started working on walking some, taking 3-4 steps towards us. She mastered walking holding just one hand, practicing with her great grandpa Hammack. She took 6 steps on New Years and then decided that she liked crawling more. Last Monday, Linnea was enjoying crawling everywhere. Tuesday night she played at her grammie's while we went out to dinner. Before we picked her up we talked about how she wasn't interested in walking at all and how she had pretty much stopped even trying to take a few steps at a time, she seemed content crawling all over the place. We joked that we would go into the house to pick her up and she would be chasing her grammie's cats around. She wasn't exactly chasing the cats around, but she was following her grammie around trying to get a feathered cat toy that she has always loved watching the cats play with. Wednesday, I kept finding her walking in the hall and taking short little walks and then she would start to crawl and then maybe stand up and start walking again. Thursday, we had our weekly Refresh meeting at a friend's house and Linnea tried walking to and from various points. Friday, we had a recheck on Linnea's ears, 9 days earlier when we had gone for her one year check up she was only interested in crawling and that's what we told the dr when he asked whether she was walking or not. She was walking around in the waiting room before her ears were rechecked! Saturday, she spent a lot of her time and energy following around her daddy trying to make sure he didn't get out of her sight and improving on her walking skills. Sunday, she decided to stay up till 11 walking around. From beginning of the weekend till the end, it has been amazing how much confidence she has gained, she is now walking pretty much everywhere. This morning she walked all the way from the kitchen into our bedroom to come find us. I have found her wandering all over the house and she has started carrying random objects around as she explores :-) Maybe I'll get some pictures up soon of her in action.
And now we are on to new and exciting frontiers, our little gummy bear has decided that twelve and a half months of toothlessness is enough and is currently working on her first tooth!