Happy Thanksgiving!

Today Ryan took over a hundred steps...in a row....without holding onto anything.... for the first time ever. Since his first solo steps October 1st, Ryan has been working on walking in therapy. As you saw in the last video on this blog, he was putting together a few in a row, but always collapsed from the momentum he picked up. So the focus in therapy was balancing and taking a few steps, then pausing, then resuming steps. Well, that hard work has paid off. We took a vacation to southern CA over Thanksgiving break and on Friday, we met with some of our AMC families. These same families were in the room when Ryan took his first steps in San Diego last month, so when we met up this time, Ryan showed how far he had come...which was about 10 steps or so. One of the dads said he thought it looked like Ryan could go farther than he was doing, and so the seed was planted. We had never tried to go more than a few steps, out of fear that Ryan would fall. But, today we tried. Ryan's first "long walk" was taking alap from the living room, through the foyer, into the kitchen, into the dining room and back to the living room (a small loop, if you aren't familiar with our house layout). The video posted here is the second try, which started at the edge of the living room and continued down our hallway into Lily's room. This truly was the happiest of Thanksgivings this year! xoxo K