We have a walker!

Callie has started walking all on her own!!!!!  Yesterday she just decided that it was time to do it without holding onto my hand.  We had been at the store earlier and I had walked away from her.  She was a little upset because she wanted to "walk with Mama" so Scott picked her up, set her on her feet and she walked the five or six steps toward me.  She did it a couple of more times when we got home and then we sat down to eat lunch.  Once lunch was over she wanted to walk, and boy did she!  I think we must have done the walk to Mama thing again and then she just kept going!  It was so exciting and you could tell Callie was really proud of herself.  After nap we went down to the park to play and she kept showing off her new skills.  I was worried she would wait another month to walk on her own, but she kept right on going.  Then after dinner we took a little trip down to the lobby of the apartments and she was doing even better!  We even ran into her friend Caden and she just about ran to him.  She was so excited to see her friend and sort of keep up with him!  Now I am officially chasing a toddler and am so worried when we are outside since Japan is the land of concrete!  I see many scraped knees in our future, but I doubt Callie will mind.  She seems to already enjoy her new independence!