I had been egging Nick on for ages to have a weekend away with friends, and the ideal opportunity arose with Ali being in the country for him to join her in Kyoto and re-live their time there. So, after a couple of hours with me and Emily he set off for the two hour shinkansen journey. Before he left he was able to see her tentative attempts at walking: unprompted by me the day before, she had pushed the kitchen stool across the floor a few feet. It looks awfully like a Zimmer-frame! This time she did it more confidently and several times. A small step (excuse the pun) but significant.
After lunch we set out in the warm sunshine to the jidokan at Hamamatsucho. We spent a couple of hours there, being on our own at first but gradually joined by more babies and their mums. To keep up the progress I stood her up behind a wooden walker, and was so pleased when she walked the length of the 40'+ room. She was smiling too, so I think she knew she had done something amazing. I wished I could have got a photo, but was too occupied hovering behind her in case it ran away from her and she fell.
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