Ring around the daddy

Jarem is getting so much better at walking each day! My dad got him this walker for Christmas. The first day Jarem kept falling over and didn't really know what to do with it. The cool thing about this toy is that You can move the top part around into other positions so he can use it while sitting or take the top part off completely and use it without the walking mechanism. But Jarem loved trying to pull up to standing on it so we kept it in the walker position and let him learn.
To start we would put the walker facing the couch so that it wouldn't move and he could just use it to stand up and balance with while he played. Then we would let him walk around with it under supervision since he would fall down every couple steps. By the following Sunday, Jarem could walk with the walker without any help across the entire living room. AMAZING! Babies learn things so quickly!

Our friend Uriel told us a story about teaching your baby to walk by holding one end of the stick to help them balance. Eventually, your baby will know how to walk and is simply comforted by holding the stick. He said that you can hand the baby the stick and let go of the other end. The baby will continue to walk with the stick in hand and not notice that you let go of the other end. We found that interesting.

So last night Eric took out the broom and tried it with Jarem. (A broom is the only stick we have to use for now. We're gonna try and get another one this weekend since we can't see Jarem holding that big old broom and walking on his own.) Well, Jarem loved walking with the broomstick in hand! He and daddy went in circles last night and Jarem cried every time Eric stopped or tried to put the broom away. This video is actually from early this morning when we tried it again. I was shocked at how well Jarem did, especially in his socks on the slippery tile. He is growing up so fast! We'll keep you posted with whether or not the stick trick really works in helping Jarem learn to walk.


In case anyone is wondering why we've made the switch to so many videos as opposed to pictures it has to do with two things. One, our camera is broken right now and we either need to fix it or buy a new one. Two, the Flip video camera is so small and handy, we love it! Plus, with how mobile Jarem is it seems more fun to let you see for yourself.