I am Kyle's self-indulgence

A couple of months ago I posted a video of Eva's unusual way of crawling.

For a long time this was Eva's only way to get around and she became very fast at it. So fast, in fact, that it seemed like she didn't feel any need to learn how to walk. By her first birthday, she could raise herself from sitting to standing without pulling up on anything, but she still wasn't taking any steps. If she needed to go somewhere she would just lower herself back to the ground and hobble-crawl over to where she wanted to be.

I thought she might need a little bit of encouragement to figure out the whole walking thing, so one day I spent maybe five or ten minutes standing her up, putting a single finger on her back, and nudging her forward. Immediately she began taking several steps before falling down. By the next day she was walking to get to places.

Since then she has been a regular power-walker. She toddles around back and forth from room to room, all day long.