Sometime last weekend Snapdragon suddenly put everything together, realized she could stand up without a support or assist, and has begun walking freely. Since then she has not let her knees scrape the floor; crawling is over. She is, of course, falling all over the place. But she can get up and try again and is getting more and more stable; at this point she's tripping more than wobbling when she falls. It has been extremely fun to see her head at a height and location it never was before finding her peeking over and around and running about constantly just for the sheer joy of it. She's wanted this since her eyes could focus. She's attained her only goal, the one she's desired from birth. She is triumphant, flying.
Today tho. Today she experienced an exquisite pain; a wound one can only suffer when one is a walker. A horrible injury reserved for only those who know two things: how to walk... and where the Legos are.