Freedom!

When we first took Luke outside for our daily “walk” with his new “wheels”, Luke took off. He was all over the place. Normally, with his old walker, we made Luke go in a big rectangle. I tried to get him to do his “normal” routine of a rectangle, but he wanted nothing to do with it.


We started off on our “normal” route but I soon found that Luke wanted his freedom and he was off!! Every chance he got he started going down and to the right, which I finally figured out would lead him towards our neighbor’s house. They have three kids and a puppy who often comes by on his “walk” and keeps Luke company while we work on Luke’s “walking”. Anyway, after trying to point him a different direction a few different times….I gave up and let him have his freedom.

So off we went going off the pavement, into the grass, down the ditch, on the road and down the small hill to the neighbor’s house. Of course once we got there we should turn around and come back right? Wrong…at least Luke thought he should keep heading down the hill, past the road and down the hill through the neighbor’s yard to their door. Before he could do that I turned him around and back up the hill we just went down. Each time I took my hand off his back he started to turn his walker back the way we came, down the hill.

I felt like I was pushing him all the way up the hill. I think I definitely got my exercise that day. Now when we walk outside I can only allow so much “freedom” before steering him back on the pavement of the driveway. Most of the time when I turn him back towards our house he simply decides he’ll keep turning and just make a 360, which brings him right back to where he was….aiming to go through the yard and down the hill.

When I know I have the energy to push Luke back up our hill, I let him have his freedom…at least once. I figure it’s good to let him have some freedom, and probably good for mommy to get some exercise.