Happier happenings
September 15th, 2006 by Liss
Well, that was depressing. How about some happier news to knock that off the top of the page?
I’ve been starting to wonder a bit whether Abby is every going to crawl. It’s not that she’s not mobile - far from it, she can roll anywhere she wants to go, faster than you’d think possible. But she’s not crawling, and I sometimes think that she’ll be one of those babies who go straight from rolling to walking. But before she can crawl, she needs to figure out how to get from lying down to sitting up on her own - something else she
couldn’t do yet.
I put her down for a nap earlier and as she sometimes does (or, uh, doesn’t) she wasn’t falling asleep. She was playing happily, so I let her be - I have a “one hour minimum if you’re not screaming bloody murder” stay-in-the-crib-at-naptime policy. I glanced at the video monitor every now and then to see whether she was settling in or still playing, and after an hour or so, what did I see? My baby girl, sitting in the middle of the crib, just looking around the room and smiling at the camera!
I don’t know how quickly she’ll figure out a way to manage that feat without the bars of the crib to use for leverage, but it’s one more milestone she’s crossed off her list on the way to fame and fortune.