A/N: Since the outline for the five remaining chapters is short I'm going to try and finish this before I move in a few weeks then I'll move on to another fic.
Brennan opened the door to the mighty hut and went in putting her bag on the chair and let out a sigh. Today was a long day she had lectured to groups of students all morning and had a book signing at night. Booth quietly walked down the stairs holding Christine. "Booth, it's late why is Christine still up?"
"She wants to show you her new skill." Booth bent over and placed Christine on the floor and held on until she had he balance and took a step. Brennan smiled and knelt down, holding her arms out. Christine grinned and kept walking toward Brennan until she crashed in to her legs.
"Good job sweetheart." Brennan kissed her cheek and stood up.
"When did she start walking on her own? Last night she was still holding on to things."
"After dinner. I sat her on the floor to play and she crawled over and grabbed my pant leg and stood up and started wobbly walking away from me. When she ran out of stuff to hold on to, she kept going and didn't fall on her butt. She's been walking around all night."
Brennan picked up Christine who was standing by her holding on to her pants. "Let's get you in your pjs so you can go to sleep, you've had an exciting night." Brennan kissed the top of Christine's head and turned toward Booth who placed his own kiss on Christine's forehead. "Goodnight baby girl, I love you." Brennan started for the stairs and Christine started straining to get down, Brennan tightened her hold and pushed Christine back to her. "You can't walk up the steps yet sweetheart, but when we get to your room I'll let you walk in there. Booth, we're going to have to put up the baby gates, I don't want her on the stairs yet or in any room but the living room."
"Got it."
A half hour later Brennan came down stairs and sat next to Booth."Christine didn't want to lie down; she wanted to walk around all night. I just sat in the rocker and let her do it as I was reading and after three pages she came over to me and I picked her up and finished the story as she fell asleep." Booth grinned, "Can you believe she'll be a year old next week?"
"No, the time is passing too quickly, which is impossible because time passes at the same rate, but it is..."
Booth leaned in and kissed Brennan's check."I know what you mean Bones. How was your day?"
"Good, but I'm starving any leftovers?"
"in the fridge…"