Starting with walking

Around 8-9 months, Maddy's exhibited interest in walking. They say that you don't force the babies to walk, they have to want to do it themselves. So only during the times that Maddy herself seemed to want to stand up do we hold her up for a period of time.

Eventually, she got used to it and started "running" around assisted. We had to get her walking shoes, which are essentially just crib shoes. She prefers it to those chunky shoes, and it's better than socks.

But I think eventually we'll need to let her wear actual shoes, since the crib shoes have no traction on the floor and at the speed that she "runs", she keeps slipping!

We already have pink Stans for her, but we purposely got it 2-3 sizes bigger so she can wear them when she can actually already walk!