A Step at a Time

 A Step at a Time

 January 10, 2003

 Hey, guys. Welcome to another day in the life of me, in 2003.

 So, While playing with a Follow-Me-Reptar toy, Tommy feels bad that Dil can't play with the Rugrats since he can't walk. He and and friends try to get Dil to walk, but have quite a bit of trouble with it. During one of their attempts to get Dil to walk, Stu's talking on the kitchen phone to Didi and he looks out the kitchen window and sees Dil seemingly walking (he was actually being held up by Phil and Lil).

When Betty, Charlotte and Chas are told what Stu saw, they don't think Dil was actually walking and tell Stu that Dil's still way too young to actually start walking (with Betty pointing out that he won't start walking for at least a year). The adults start reminiscing about when their own children first started walking, while the babies (and later Angelica) do the same thing:

Angelica tells the babies that she started walking after she first saw another baby with his mom holding a cookie in his hand. She got out of her stroller and walked over to get it, although her mom thinks it was because Angelica wanted to hug her. After Charlotte picked Angelica up, Angelica took the cookie from the other baby and ate it, making him cry.

After hearing that, the babies try getting Dil to walk for a carrot that Chuckie had left over from a snack he had earlier, but Dil doesn't want it.

Phil and Lil started walking after they had apparently gotten into a fight, but their mom thought that they were helping each other to walk.

Hearing that, Lil pretends to be Dil's twin sister to try and get him to start walking, but it doesn't work.

Chuckie didn't actually walk the first time, he ran. He was in the front yard with his dad, and he got scared when he saw this giant Clown-head on top of an ice cream truck that was coming towards his house, but Chas thought it was because he just wanted an ice cream treat.

Hearing that, the Rugrats (mainly Angelica) decide to scare Dil into walking, but Tommy stops them and tells them that Dil won't start walking until he's good and ready, and Dil's shown to be happy that Tommy's standing up for him.

While this was going on, Stu was setting up motion-activated video cameras that would start recording if Dil walked. Didi ends up rushing home after receiving the call from Stu that Dil was walking and knocks over the cameras. In the end, the adults realize that Dil really is too young to start walking. As the babies are walking into Tommy's house, Chuckie points out that they never found out what made Tommy walk for the first time.

It's revealed that Chuckie's the whole reason Tommy started walking in the first place:

Tommy remembers that Chuckie had come over to his house with Chas (this was after Chuckie started walking) and remembers that he really wanted to play with Chuckie, so he pulled himself up using the back of the couch in the living room and started walking.

Chuckie's touched by the fact that he was the reason Tommy started walking. And Tommy thinks that if Dil had a friend like Chuckie, he would want to walk just like Tommy did back then. After Chas tells Chuckie and Kimi that they're leaving, Dil sees Tommy walking with his friends and Angelica, who were also getting ready to go back home with their parents. He then tries getting up to start walking the way Tommy did the first time, but he's unable to do so. Tommy comes over to Dil and tells him not to worry about walking and that he'll walk whenever he wants to and that he can still play with Dil, which makes him happy.