Well, when you have your first baby you simply can't wait for all the "new" things they will learn to do. Rolling, sitting, crawling, talking, walking...and so on. I am pretty sure after you have one and realize that with each "new" thing they learn, taking care of them gets a little harder with each thing. Other kids Lanie's age have been crawling for a month or so. Call us bad parents, but we were not pushing for her to learn how to crawl. Well, she no longer was content with just sitting and playing toys or standing at her play table. She wanted to move. It happened oh so quickly and now we are really in for more work! At first she didn't want to crawl on the kitchen floor. That was fine with me because at any given time there is some kind of food laying on the floor, spilled drink of some sort, dirt, cat hair, or ants....or most of the time... all of the above. Yesterday, lucky us, she started crawling on the kitchen floor. Please don't report me and try to take her away from me due to these somewhat "unsafe" shots. She was under careful supervision....I promise!
Here she is showing off a new trick, I guess. First, please notice that she has no clothes on. This was taken probably around 3 in the afternoon. Yup, 3 in the afternoon and I still hadn't gotten her dressed.
She wasn't really in the "take my picture, Mom" mood. I think she was trying to figure out how to pull herself up some how. All of her sisters and her brother were upstairs so she keeps looking up because she can hear them all going crazy!
And here it is.....ladies and gentlemen... when you are #6 in the family, you have to be resorted to crawling after a plastic egg. That is what one of the girls gave her to play with. A plastic egg. Not a fun toy that makes music or has fun colors, but a hard, boring, little, plastic egg.
Then because a plastic egg isn't interesting enough, we resort to playing with the outlet. Yes, she is playing the outlet. No covers on it...nothing. They were child proofed at one time....and they will be again today...but because this was "new" to us....they were not child protected. Don't worry, she didn't have any metal objects in her hands....but still....and egg and and outlet. What will #7 have the privilege of crawling too? Poop maybe? Ha!
And again, it sounded way more fun upstairs for Lanie. She hasn't quite crawled over by the stairs yet so she hasn't tried that new trick out. We don't have a baby gate anymore as the puppy we tried for 2 months chewed that us...so I guess that will be on our list of things to buy this week!
Now don't get me wrong, we are very glad she is progressing and advancing like babies should do. However, now I have to make sure there are no tiny pieces laying around and be constantly watching where she is and what she is doing. Before I could park her by my feet and get some work done at the computer....not so much now! The kids are tickled pink that she is crawling and find it so fun! Our little "chubba Wabba's" is growing up so fast! I promise to get the outlets child proofed today and I promise to vacuum the floor. Let the fun begin!
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