Toddle toddle toddle

It's taken a while, but we've finally got a real, toddling toddler over here. She always tries to walk before crawling (unless she's chasing us or something else requiring speed), and often gets to her destination by walking. She's still slow and unstable, but she gets there.

She's super-speedy when she can hang onto your hand, but -- and this is typical A. behavior -- she won't let you hold her hand. She'll hang onto a finger or wrist, but if you try to wrap your hand around hers, she'll shake her arm until you get off or just plop down on her butt and refuse to move.

But when you can convince her to hold your finger, she has a blast exploring previously off-limits areas. A. and I went by my parents' warehouse to meet my mom for lunch, and A. got to toddle through the rows of merchandise and stop to explore whatever she wanted (paint-by-number, plastic dollar coin storage tubes, balsa wood airplane models). That was fun -- and had the opportunity for lots of trouble-making. It's going to be crazy when she can really walk/run around in there.