Here is a cute photo of our Gabrielle Rose. She is almost ready to walk. I cannot believe how fast time flies. With our first-born and most of the other children, we encouraged, almost pushed them to learn to walk. All of that changed with the arrival of our twins girls. We were so busy, we didn't have time to worry about teaching them to walk. Strangely, they just seemed to pick all that up on their own, quite naturally. We even had to laugh at ourselves that we had spent so much time practicing with our eldest. It was fun, but seemingly unnecessary.
Recently, another life lesson has been learned. I must admit to feeling sadness at Gabrielle's attempts at walking even though it is so adorable. She stands up on her two chubby feet, arches back and forth as she tries to balance herself, arms straight out on either side, and then she takes one, two, three.....five steps at a time now. She seems in no hurry to actually move much further than that which is fine with me. Stay a baby. The new life lesson is that childhood rushes by so quickly. The little baby that was here just a few months ago is already ready to go off exploring by herself. I am quite content to let her work this out on her own. Let's keep it to 5 steps baby Gabi. Let's not hurry things.
