The Sweetest Thing

Once Abby figured out the forward motion in crawling, she just never looked back.  At first, she was just crawling to people or objects that she wanted, and would do so by a method that I liked to call "The drag and squirm".  That has since progress to her beginning to explore the house and pull up on objects, so gone are the days where I could plunk her on her play mat and do some work around the house without worry of her moving or getting hurt. 

For example, I went to the bathroom the other day and came back to this

Just a little further!

She was using the piano more as a walker to get closer to the window so that she could pull on the handle.  Awesome.

Now that she has mastered hands and knees crawling, she is a lot quicker, and also it is a lot quieter.  No longer can I tell when she has left the play mat by sound alone.  Her most coveted object is a little free standing side table that we have.  Unfortunately, it is really light and she likes to pull on it, so I am sure one day one of the objects on it, or the stand itself, is going to topple on her.  I've put a speaker underneath it so that she can't drag it quite so easily.


No no, I'm not going to pull on it.  I just want to look at it.



OK, I lied



As of yesterday though, she has started to embark on a new challenge: the stairs.  We only have 3 going up into the kitchen from the living room, but she was bound and determined to get up them. 


She is so proud of herself for everything that she can do, but the sweetest thing is that she always turns to look at me, with that big gummy smile (yep, still no teeth!) as if to say look Mama!  Look what I am doing!  I know that smile is going to get her out of a lot of trouble when she is older.  I feel like that smile lets me know, that even though she is growing up and getting more independent, she still loves me unconditionally.

Are you watching?  Because this is about to happen

Leg up, no problem!

Oh, this is too easy!

One more!

Gate, I have a feeling that you and I are going to be enemies