Paige has been very interested, lately, in practising her walking skills. She is still so wobble-y but I think she sees it as entertainment. The crawling is becoming passe already. She is very clever and I can see her watching my legs if I do silly jumps in front of her to get her to laugh. She is trying to figure the whole thing out. Something she can do, (although I'm not sure if it is impressive or not--what do I know?), is walk forward when she is holding onto something. When she pulls herself to standing while holding onto something, obviously her legs are still far away from the object and her back is still arched as she is holding onto the object. She can then take a few steps forward on her own to be standing up straight. I thought that was pretty good, but like I said, what do I know? I think I need to get her one of those walkers. I was under the impression that all walkers were illegal, but it is just those death trap ones that the kid is confined in a seat where they can make their way over to the stairs when you're not looking. I guess they assume that if your kid is walking behind something you have already taken the neccessary precautions with the baby gate. You can bet I wouldn't let her out of my sight with one of those..I am always afraid of her falling when she is standing against anything. Oh--so basically, i mean one of those little push car things, or some sort of push animal or something for babies rather than toddlers.
I put her in her bouncy chair yesterday for the first time since, probably, Christmas? She was basically horizontal in it since she weighs so much. Also, on the back of the seat it says that once the baby can sit up unnassisted that they should not be in the seat anymore. I wasn't sure if that meant they could just sit on their own unnassisted, or if they could sit up (bring themselves to sitting) unnassisted? It was quite unclear, but I take it to mean that she should not be in it anymore since she can sit on her own, and if she is in the chair she can use the sides to pull herself up. If the toy bar is on though, there is no way she can get out, but oh well. It was not as fun for her as it used to be. But it was very interesting to watch how she interactred with the moving toys on the toy bar now. She used to just hit randomly at these toys that would make noise, and she would just watch these other 2 tiny animals that moved. Now she seems to understand cause and effect more and she would know how to make noise. She was also touching the smaller toys with her index finger, and playing with the toucan attached to a spring which she had never done. It is too bad that babies outgrow toys before they obviously get the full use out of them.
Today is day 1 of no coffee. We'll see if I make it till tomorrow. There are just so many days that it has made me feel gross, so I have subsituted it this morning with herbal tea. HA! We'll see what happens. I was hoping that just having a warm drink would help. We're going to Gymboree today, so we'll see how I feel there. I know I need to drink more water too, so if I do both of these things I should feel spectacular.
I just love this little pink sweater and jeans. She felt so grown up in it that she thought she would stay up till 10:00 last night.
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