Add entry for Scott's first steps.

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+[[meta title="First steps!"]]
+
+[[tag family scott]]
+
+A little over two weeks ago, I described Scott's
+[[first_time_standing|scott_standing]], along with my hope that he'd
+be walking by his second birthday which was just five weeks away at
+the time. He went ahead and amazed us by taking his first five steps
+just one week later.
+
+And just like his first time standing, he took his first steps at his
+physical therapy appointment. Now, we love Becky, his physical
+therapist, (and Julie, his original therapist now on maternity leave),
+and she *loves* Scott. So I'm really happy that she got to see him
+both stand and walk for the first time. But I couldn't help feeling a
+little bit left out that I missed both of these events. Particularly
+since, (from the descriptions I've heard anyway), these were things
+that Scott just decided to do that were fairly incidental to any
+therapy going on at the time.
+
+In the two weeks since, we've been trying to give Scott lots of
+opportunities to walk at home, but he hasn't been extremely
+enthusiastic about it. He would take a few steps every once in a
+while, but he'd also be just as likely to just laugh and sit down
+instead. So I hadn't even succeeded in getting any decent footage to
+post here.
+
+But then, this afternoon, a friend came over and happened to set her
+13-month-old son down to crawl around on the trampoline in the back
+yard. Scott wasn't going to be left out of this and insisted on
+joining in.
+
+He immediately realized that this was a nice safe place and he started
+standing, laughing, and walking as much as possible. And I suddenly
+realized how foolish I had been. Of course he tried things out at
+physical therapy before trying them at home---at physical therapy he
+gets to play on thick, soft pads instead of the relatively hard
+carpet, tile, and hardwood he has to deal with at home.
+
+So, finally, here is a short clip of Scott walking on the trampoline:
+
+<a href="http://cworth.org/scott/first_steps/scott-first-steps-2007-07-25.ogg">
+
+[[scott-walking.png]]
+
+</a>
+
+Again, see the [[video_instructions]] if you need help getting the
+video to play.
+
+What a difference the trampoline made! As soon as we came inside he
+kept walking all over the tiled, kitchen floor. He's still fairly
+wobbly and falling down every 6-10 steps or so, but he clearly gained
+a lot of confidence from his short time playing on the
+trampoline. We'll definitely have to get him out on that more
+often. (But we're off to the coast for the next three days---so we'll
+have to see how he responds to walking on sand.)
+
+Thanks to everyone that has expressed their concern for Scott in words
+or in prayer. We really appreciate it.

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