Learning To Walk

I got the chance to check on my hard drive today and found old video clips of Matti learning how to walk. I had a hand me down walk trainer given by my church friend who gave me a lot of things during my virtual baby shower. These things they had given me were really helpful and I super appreciate them for giving me a baby shower, although virtual over zoom, the items were given to me personally but since it was COVID time on 2020, we had to wait for awhile before I receive the items.

Thankfully, I was able to make use of the walker. I believe Jen, the generous giver used this for her two boys. I tried it on Matti and this was truly helpful, he was able to practice walking with it. We used to train him by the afternoon because at that time, the sun's not very harsh already and that we can walk outside the garage, we only have a little space there as it has been used as a parking space and there's also an inflatable pool used by my niece and nephew.

In the video, my husband just focused on Matti, he was really jolly in walking, very enthusiastic, very active! He would go from here to there, won't mind all the barriers in front of him and would even want to go outside of the gate! Oh oh!

He was successful in getting out though but the road is just two meters away, we have to keep him in control. His grandfather came in a motorcycle and boy, he was fascinated, he kept running towards him!

I compiled the video clips in Da Vinci Resolve. I changed the frame rate though as my husband filmed it with 60fps. I love slow motion videos so I changed it to 23.976fps and this resulted to smooth slow motion videos.

Music is always a hard time. I checked what's in my local drive and all I could find that is solemn is this one from 24Seven entitled Of Christ from their album Source of Life. This song was a free one which I found while looking for some Christian music.

That's it for today! Isn't it nice to look back and see how our kids had reached certain milestones especially the skill of walking? Matti is still not a pro in walking even until today but he can manage to walk by himself, there are still times when he stumble down especially on a not flat surface. But he can manage to stand up and be careful in walking when that happens.

He runs too! But I would make sure that I am behind him so that when he stumble, I can catch him. The same thing with my husband. I still get mini heart attacks too when he gets into accidents while walking. All of these things are of course part of growing up. He will surely learn and will be walking by himself.