Will He Ever Walk?

I can't tell you how many times Dave and I had that conversation in the first three years of Teddy's life. Somewhere around when he turned 2.5, we became absolutely certain that Teddy would walk independently. Sure enough, just a couple months before his third birthday, he took his first wobbly independent steps, motivated to grab car keys.

Through the years, we often described him to a drunk monkey in terms of how he walked. He couldn't stop the momentum of his body, so he simply crashed into walls. He walked into everything, unless he fell first because he fell every couple steps. His gait has improved slowly, but steadily, with a lot of physical therapy and practice. 

This, my friends, is the boy who we once wondered if he'd ever walk:

Now, we wonder if he'll ever stop running?