Crawling, Pulling Up, Standing, Climbing - OH MY!

Tuesday, May 31, 2011

That's right, Lydia is crawling.  She started on Tuesday, May 17th and by Saturday, May 21st she was pulling herself up.  This past weekend she started climbing up on things and jumping up and down.  This all means we have our work cut out for us here.  She is getting so fast and we try to watch her and keep up with her the best we can.
Of course she always crawls towards Harley's water, our dirty shoes, the fireplace stone or something that just isn't sturdy...really?  really?  Not sure how she knows to go towards those things and not all her fun toys that are right in front of her.  Here we go...

This all happened in less than 30 seconds...
 We put her in the basket, she crawled out...
 After crawling towards Harley (Harley saw trouble coming, so she moved)...
 She went to sit next to her Daddy's feet while he read the morning paper and drank his coffee...
 Then she crawled back over to the stone fireplace, reached up and got on her knees...
 Lydia pulled herself up to a standing position and began jumping up and down, looking back to make sure I was watching her have fun.

Later that afternoon in the same day (Memorial Day):
 She crawled over to her bouncy chair...
 And proceeded to climb on top of it to get on the couch...
 Her face shows the realization that I'm telling her no and after taking the cute picture, I got her down and moved the chair away.

Here she is after crawling across the room to climb on top of Harley.  Can you see how excited Harley looks ("please get this baby off of me"), her facial expression is opposite of Lydia's, who thinks it is the funniest thing.