Sometimes I’m not sure who is learning more, Hannah or Amber and I. Today Hannah taught me a very important lesson. Hannah has been walking in fits and spurts, mostly just trying it out and still using crawling as her main mode of transportation. Today, Hannah decided that today was the day she was really going to walk. She would get up, walk a few steps, fall down, and try again. Pretty soon she was laughing as she was falling around the room.
For the most part, when adults try something and fail, we tend to get discourged and do everything to avoid putting ourselves in that situation again. But as Hannah fell time and again, she was laughing, because she knew that every time she failed, she was getting better. Hannah knows that the important thing isn’t that you fall down, it’s that you continue to get up.
UPDATE: Video should work now for everyone, let me know if you can’t play it.
Go Hannah! That’s so awesome!