Walking Walking Walking

Chance is walking all the time now, he almost never crawls anymore. When we get out of the car he always wants to walk wherever we are. He has learned where the coffee shop at the end of the block is and now when we get home he grabs either my or Scott's hand and guides us down the block. He is learning much to his dismay that he must stay on the sidewalk and can not enter the road. He has started walking longer and longer distances all on his own without our prompting at all. While we were on the North Shore we walked a long way up and down the lake looking for caches. Chance walked most of the way down but he walked the whole way back to the car. I am not sure how far this was but it was pretty flat and we could not see the car when we started walking back toward it. He took a couple breaks but he never gave up. Sometimes he would take Scott's hand but most of the time he walked on his own. He does not run yet but he takes little jogging moments. He will walk and then he will jog for a moment then stop, look around and rest then he will sprint for a moment then start all over again. He seemed a little tired when we got to the car but when we got back home he tried to take off down the sidewalk toward the coffee shop again so I guess he was not all that tired.