Baby Schmaby

there's this thing that happens when people see/meet your kid

they ask questions

usually normal things that should in no way bother you

they're just curious

and as any mom or dad knows you just smile, answer and move on

unless of course, this question is coming from another parent

or someone who knows roughly the timing on when kids should start doing things

like talking. or sitting. or in our case, walking.

so, when this question would inevitably come up in conversation

i'd just smile and say she's a lazy whore

ok, fine, i didn't say whore

because that's not appropriate

{fine sometimes i said it in my head...or out loud with my bff, Emilie, who totally understands my warped sense of humor and doesn't judge me}

and to be honest, i'm fine with the kid not walking yet

if she wants to speed crawl everywhere

get your freaking groove on girlfriend

that's less bumps and spills i have to worry about

not to mention she's started this thing where she crawls backwards

{her name over the holiday break was crayfish, ha}

and it's adorable as fuck

and so, much like my pregnancy i figured if i stopped harassing her

that eventually she would do what she needed/wanted to do

so, i did

but that didn't mean Granny & Pap Paw did

and finally after months of trying

they figured it out

yep, she loves the candy

and on January 5, 2012 she wanted it bad enough to take her first steps

and at 5:30 pm when i went to pick her up

i don't honestly know if i've ever witnessed her that happy

and that proud

and that beautiful

in the moment when she walked to her Granny

turned her beautiful strawberry blonde head to me 

and smiled as large as her chubby cheeks would allow her

as if to say

mom, you can stop telling Aunt Emilie i'm a lazy whore now, i can walk!

{as a side note, i may want to look into cleaning my language up...}

and you can bet your ass this proud mama got it on video
{i didn't say i was going to clean it up now}

baby schmaby, she's a toddler now!
she gets a good 5-6 steps in around 1:10 

and if you notice at the very beginning she keeps cheesing at me
because she thinks i'm taking her picture

yeah, she's kind of the definition of a ham
and for the life of us, we have no idea where she picked it up from...