The Costco Mini-mini-marathon

As reported on this blog, Noah took his first steps six weeks ago. Since then, he's generally shown a strong loyalty to his one-legged crawl. If we stood him up and coaxed him, he'd walk to us, but that's it.

Then I had an epiphany. Whenever we go out, I carry him. So we implemented operation "walking practice." At the library, at the grocery store, at church. Assuming we have time to walk 1 mile/day, I hold his hand and let him walk next to me. He's SO cute walking that he inspires patience I didn't know I had. And he finds things of interest now that he's down out of the stroller/cart.

Such was the case during our last visit to Costco. First he played with the tags on the roll of outdoor carpet. Then, he realized the cart on which it sat moved. So he gave it a push. Through the check-out line. Past the concession stand. Out the front door. Across the parking lot and to our car.

It might have been the funniest thing I've ever seen. People would see the cart coming and look confused until they caught sight of the little engine that could. I snapped a few moments of video amidst my safety and steering duties. Take a look at our little dynamo.




Oh, and I should mention the practice seems to be working. Today during small group, he was walking voluntarily around the family room! Very exciting stuff. :)