Amina walk self

We have been loving having sunshine here this week, with relatively mild temperatures.  So of course I’ve had to go outside and enjoy the nice February weather as much as possible!  We’ve been for a walk every day this week (Bruin must think he’s died and gone to doggy heaven).  Amina usually rides in the stroller so that we can walk at a faster pace.  Well this morning I had to do an online training for keeping up my speech pathology certification, so I didn’t get to pay a lot of attention to Amina during that time.  Afterwards I decided she’d love some attention so we went for a short walk around the block, leaving Bruin at home so that Amina could walk the whole time.  She loved picking up leaves, picking dandelions, listening to wind chimes, holding and tearing apart a mushroom, etc.  But most of all she loved that she could walk by herself for part of the time.  She didn’t want to hold her mama’s hand the whole time so she said “Amina walk self”.  As we were just in our neighborhood and there were no cars around I thought this was an okay enough time to let her try.  She did really good staying near Mama, but was hesitant to hold my hand again when I asked her to.   I guess we will be working on the ‘obeying’ lesson for a long time anyway ;) After our walk we got to play in the backyard for a little while and enjoy that delightful sunshine and throw the rope for Bruin a little bit.  He still misses our big backyard where he could really run, but he’s surviving ;)