First Steps

When you have twins that are children 3&4 in your family keeping up with milestones is a bit difficult.  In the case of foster children you actually have to be very diligent about these matters, turning in monthly notes, and watching for sings of delays because of in utero exposure.  With baby girl E, we have never had any worries.  She sat up at 6 months, crawled around 8 months at walked at 13 months.  Baby boy D has been a different story.  He was very worrisome early on because he would not make eye contact and did not even flinch if you snapped in his face.  Around 5 months he "woke up" and has been the happiest go lucky boy ever since.  He is always excited, but in no hurry to accomplish his mile stones.  He has been a good 2 months behind his sister in each milestone (except rhythm, he has been dancing to the beat since birth it seams.)  Miss E started walking the second week in March at 13 months old so when the middle of May rolled around and D showed no sign of walking we started to get a bit worried.  We have been working with him non-stop, but he gets so angry if you try to let go of his hand while he is walking.  We knew that he could walk, he was just not confident enough.  On Saturday June 11, Aaron wanted him out of the bedroom so that he could get in the shower (he was already prepared for entry) so he picked up D and placed him, standing, outside of our room and he WALKED away.  Aaron was yelling from the bedroom because he could not come out so I came running to find a very excited little boy.  His first attempt and he took about 20 steps.  He still prefers crawling, but really can walk if he wants to.