Hi Mommy Bears,

This post is a little overdue, since Little Cub will be 1 next week, but it got me reflecting on when she first started crawling and walking.

She was around 9 months old at the time and was scooting around in a backwards crawl decent enough, but she wouldn’t really go forward.

One Friday, she just started crawling! We were so proud and amazed! But little did we know that wasn’t even the amazing part. And I kid you not when I say this, but she started crawling that Friday, and two days later on Sunday she was taking her first steps!

Now when I say first steps, my husband was in the other room practicing walking with her while I was getting ready for work, and he was yelling. At me to come see. She was taking two shaky steps before he had to catch her.

I sat down on the floor with them and we let her walk back and fourth, and she got up to 2 good steps between us.

While she was walking only a few days after she started crawling forward, I must say that she never had a love for crawling to begin with. She always tried to stand up when you help her. As many babies are, she was always pretty strong and would always spring to her feet when you tried to hold her in a sitting position. She’s always had the drive to move. So much that some of her first words were “Go, go, go!”

3 Factors for Her Early Walking

I am no child development expert, although I did study it some for my psychology degree, but these are some things that stood out to me as why she was walking so early:

1. We never stopped her from walking. Being so young some may have the fear their kids will fall and get hurt, or want their kids to stay crawling for awhile. We’ve always embraced her want to walk.
2. She had the will to walk. As I stated earlier, she’s never wanted to sit still. Not only did we encourage her to walk, I don’t think we could have stopped her.
3. We didn’t force her. This is an important one. You have to read the signs of your child and let them let you know when they are ready for next steps.

Now Little Cub is 1 next week and she is a pro walker. She goes forwards, backwards, crouches and picks things up, gets up herself if she falls. She climbs and gets into everything. Sometimes it drives us a little crazy, but we love that she has a go go go attitude, and we embrace that.

Again, I am no expert, so I would love to hear about when your Little Cub started walking, how they developed, and how they are doing now! Sound off in the comments below!

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Welcome back mommies to my Mommy Bear blog!

This review in particular is going to be very useful for all of you dog mommies out there.

I decided since I had not reviewed anything yet that I use for my fur babies, I would do that today.  Therefore, today I am reviewing the Homdox Pets Dog Leash Coupler Double Dog Walker for our pups.  This product is very cool, and can be very useful, especially if your two dogs are the same size.

The Double Leash That Works!

I happen to have a beagle, and a chihuahua, and even though our chihuahua is pretty big for her breed (10 lbs.), and she can definitely pull my beagle when she puts her mind to it, there is still quite a bit of pulling between the two dogs on walks when one is trying to do their thing!  However, it still does work pretty decently, even though my dogs are not the same size.

My Review on the Homdox Pets Dog Leash Coupler Double Dog Walker

Although I really like this leash, definitely more than my husband does, it does have some flaws and all together I give this a 3.5 out of 5 star rating.  If you have a little one and/or especially if you have dogs that are closer together in weight, then it is worth a try!