A Walking, Talking doll.

She’s finally walking! Hooray!
She started crawling when she was 5 months and two weeks old. Fawad was at work. I called him up. He came home with movenpick ice cream to celebrate. But urge as I might. Yumna refused to budge! Was the ice cream in vain? Was it a fluke? Sigh!
It was a week later that she started to crawl freely. It was so cool. We’d put something out of reach to tempt her and off she’d go.
The novelty faded when she started standing up using support when she was almost 8 months old. Now we wanted her to walk. She started walking holding on to objects at eight plus months.
“She’ll start walking when she’s nine months old- you just see.” Was what everyone told me.
She turned nine, ten, eleven, her birthday….
I despaired. She refused to let go of support.
After her birthday she started standing without support but did not take a single step. Man, the process sure is slow!
Finally! At twelve plus months she took her first steps. History repeated itself. I called everyone. My husband, my mother, my father- my husband bought a cake home….
She refused to walk!
It was a few days later that she showed my husband she really could walk. A few steps and that was all. As the number of steps increased, (at an extremely slow pace I might add) her grand parents gave us cash- as a gift to her- and asked us to get something for her. And you know what? She still refused to stop crawling and start walking. She would only walk if she felt like it!!
And now, finally, when she is 14+ months she gets up herself and walks. Whew! But she still crawls. Only, now I’m hopeful in two or three days she’ll shift to walk only!
Hopefully.

But she looks so cute when she walks! The small, close steps; balancing herself lest she falls. So like a toy doll! And a doll she is!