April 21, 2015 – Day 7

Around Jeffrey’s second birthday, he fell while walking down our back steps.  From that moment on, he would only go down the stairs on his tummy or while someone was holding his hand.

Today, we were headed downstairs and he just had this look of determination in his eyes that he was going to do it. He was going to walk down, while holding the railing, all by himself. I didn’t offer my hand, I just went down the first flight with Cecilia and stopped to watched. 

It was one of those awesome, can’t prepare for, mommy moments.  He made it down the first flight, no problem, but you could tell he was nervous. And when he got to the landing, he said, “I did it!” 

After the first step on the next flight, he decided to go down the rest of the way on his tummy.

I couldn’t help but have an even deeper connection to this moment.  I may not be down all the flights of stairs, but I am one down.  And one step closer to the end of the Cancer chapter in my story book. 

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