Riana is learning to walk and she’s been making some great progress in the past couple of days. She’s been able to pull herself up to the standing position quite easily for a while now, and slowly began to stand without any support whatsoever. Once she got the stage of standing on her own, we began coaxing her to walk while her hands were held.
Since then she’s gone from taking a couple of steps with support to taking half a dozen steps all by herself. With each confidence boosting step she tries harder to go farther. With the quick progression she’s making, it’s probably only weeks before she’ll be nicely walking around.
In one way I’d like her to be able to walk as soon as possible as with her crawling around, she’s exposing her hands to all of the germs that lie on the floor and then promptly putting her fingers in her mouth when she’s tired or hungry. If she’s walking, that immediately takes away one possible avenue of germs getting into her.
Now if we can work on her not chewing on everything and anything, we’d be in great shape. 
Cheers
Talk about making great progress…
She went from taking her first few steps last Wednesday to walking and running across the length of the entire house in a week’s time!
It is amazing how quickly babies learn new skills!!!