Funny boy walking

He's walking!!! Hooray!!

I told Scott when he got home yesterday that I thought all his PT efforts were paying off, and that Zach would be walking any minute now. I was basing that on the fact on some of the progress Zach'd been making, including some that day:

- standing for minutes and minutes on his own
- being able to stand up from sitting, without holding on to anything
- when he was walking, he often was barely holding on to me
- when walking with his walker, he was often walking in front of it, pulling it behind him, just using it to catch his balance occasionally
- he jumped yesterday. Yes - an actual jump - both feet left the ground. He was holding on to my hand at the time, but still! The reason he jumped... peer pressure. Our little friend Kasey was over, and she was demonstrating her newly achieved jumping skills. Zach watched, heard me cheering for her, and seconds later had to try it himself!

So... after less than 9 full days of having the cast off - this morning Zach decided to walk. He was asking that someone walk behind him to catch him if he fell, but he's already stopped doing that and is getting around the house pretty easily, although slowly. We're headed out to our friends' cabin this afternoon for some fall/Halloween fun, and it'll be interesting to see how he progresses today alone, since he'll be surrounded by running kids!

One step closer to "normal"...