I started this little knit dress for Theda way back in June. June! Can you even remember back that far? Back in those days we were sweating it out without air conditioning, spending many days at the pool, and eating lots and lots of homemade ice pops. At that time, she was still a crawler and so I was avoiding any actual dresses and instead favoring shorter tunic-type tops that wouldn’t trip her up as she crawled about.
Silas took his first steps on the late end of the spectrum, walking at fifteen months. So, I didn’t worry when month fifteen came for her and she still had no interest in being bipedal. But then month sixteen and month seventeen came and went. We’d take her by the hands and try to help her stand, but she would get so mad…