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August 12, 2005 A Deliriously Happy 300th Post: Bipedal Baby 
The Fantabulous Frances has decided over the last three days that crawling is so last week. All the cool babies walk, doncha know.* Distances? Who's afraid of distances? Of course she can walk from the couch to the fridge to the door to the couch again! Who said she couldn't? Not she! That's just crazy talk. And she's off, two pudgy little legs and two pudgy little feet moving with piston-like precision, up-down-up-down, feet turned out at 90 degrees from each other, knees slightly bent, spine perfectly upright and hands held still in front of the belly to maximize balance. If you watch closely, you can see her shaking slightly with the effort of staying upright. "Aaaah!" she says, as she nears the object of her desires. "Aaaaaaaah!" So, a few weeks shy of 20 months, my baby girl** has decided to live on her own two feet after all. * This is scurrilous gossip. Plenty of cool babies don't walk. But like tube tops and glitter lipstick for nine year olds, Frances has convinced herself that trends define worth. **As stated previously, Frances is a baby until she is capable of telling me that she isn't a baby anymore. I will have no more of this toddler talk. She is my sweet baby girl, and that's final. Posted by Andrea at August 12, 2005 10:55 AM under Beanie Baby Brags EMAIL this entry (comments fields are below this section) Comments Precious baby--she's your baby forever. Posted by: Running2Ks at August 12, 2005 11:04 AM
Yay Frances!!! Bravo, baby girl! (And heck, I still call Tristan my baby even though he corrects me regularly. I expect this argument to continue for delicious decades.) xo Dani Posted by: Danigirl at August 12, 2005 1:19 PM
Pretty soon she'll be saying "I'm NOT a baby! I'm a BIG GIRL!!!" Your baby is toddlin' Posted by: liz at August 12, 2005 1:22 PM
And PS - happy 300th post too! Wow, you are prolific!! (No really, that's a compliment!!) Posted by: Danigirl at August 12, 2005 1:23 PM
Thank you, thank you, thank you. She may be toddlin', but she's no toddler. Until she tells me otherwise. And maybe even then. (Thanks, Dani!) And here I think PS has been running for about six months and has written something like 500 posts--now that is prolific. I'm just underutilized. Posted by: Andrea at August 12, 2005 1:44 PM
Sweet baby girl indeed. Have I told you lately that she is just.too.cute? Posted by: yankee transplant at August 13, 2005 9:00 AM
Apparently it took a bit for the gossip to get down to NYC, but Coop is now officially A Walker as well! He's been teetering on the edge for a few weeks, but he now is clearly a "I must stand and waddle over there!" person, rather than "let me scurry over as fast as I can on all fours!" kind of kid. It amazes me.... Posted by: carolyn at August 15, 2005 6:09 AM
YT--Yes, but you can say it again, if you'd like. Car--congratulations, and I'm so sorry. LOL Posted by: Andrea at August 15, 2005 9:35 AM
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