Taking Steps

I should have posted last weekend, but through a few colds and coughs and infections going through our family right now, I got a bit distracted! Elias still prefers crawling to anything else, but he’s been getting more bold in his quest for walking. He walks along the wall in hallways now, and he’ll stand and without touching anything, pick something off the floor and then stand again. He’s been “lunging” between furniture items, and we had a feeling that walking was not too far away.

We were having a little visit with Knut’s grandparents who live near us who the kids affectionately call “Oldefar” and “Great-Grandma.” “Oldefar” is Norwegian for “great-grandpa” although I think a more literal translation might be “oldest father.” Great-Grandma doesn’t want to be called “Oldemor” as she thinks it’s silly. 😉

Oldefar and Great-Grandma are I believe 94 (93?) and 91 respectively. They still live by themselves out (close to) the farm, and as healthy as I’d hope to be at their age! Oldefar walks so much, except in the winter, when he does the stairs several times as he doesn’t want to risk a fall on the ice. So who better, for Elias to take his first steps too!

That’s right. When we were having “a little lunch” at their house, Elias was done eating and started walking around their table by holding onto the chairs. When he saw that he wanted to get to Oldefar next, and there was no way to hold on to things to get to him, he let go, and took a step! He got to the very happy arms of his Oldefar.

We’ve seen this step repeated only once since then, but I’m sure that won’t be the last of this mobile trend!