C. took one step by herself this morning

The reason I'm not tossing confetti is because she also took one step by herself nearly two weeks ago. Then no more walking till this small step today. For all I know she might wait another two weeks to do it again.

That's the part of child development that no one tells you about: the one step forward, two steps back thing. Or rapid progress followed by no progress.

Example -- C.'s first really obvious intentional word was "mama" when she was only 6 months old. When she was about 8 months old, I said something about Kentucky and she repeated "tucky". I thought "Wow, this child is going to be a really early talker." But the progress isn't that smooth. She says a word once, and then it disappears, not to be heard again for maybe months. The same thing happened when she learned to wave. She waved for a day, then we never saw it again for about 3 months.

When she was trying to figure out how to crawl, one morning at age 7 months she started crawling backwards. In circles. She was trying to crawl forward, but could only go backwards. She was SO upset! I thought she would probably figure out how to go forward within a day or so, but instead it was another month. (To her credit, she didn't go backwards again either -- apparently she's smart enough not to make the same mistake twice.)

Anyway, for once in my life I've learned not to stress. I know that the path may not be a straight line exactly, but that her general development IS going forward. One thing's for sure, I never know what each day will hold!