Dante's first steps

Right during the week of his first birthday Dante took his first steps. All this past week we've been practicing together and I can't think of anything that makes my heart more joyful or makes me feel more happy than when D stands up against the sofa and and I call him. " Bo Hena Hamood Katan!!" (Come here little hamood -in Hebrew) I say. He turns to me with the sweetest smile because he knows what this game is and gets ready and then a moment later both his hands go up in the air and he is walking to me! He can take two or three steps right now and by then he'll reach me and fall into my arms and I hug and kiss him because I'm bursting with so much happiness and pleasure. And usually laughing from my belly. He looks like a little penguin waddling towards us when he does this. Christine and I are both awed and humbled by the incredible trust his actions show. He believes and trusts that we'll catch him and goes for even though if we didn't he'd fall on the floor hard.