You would hardly recognize E now.
She is full tilt from the moment she wakes up. She lunges at me if I dare to try pass by her when she's on the floor, but the moment she's done being held, she strains to launch herself toward the floor. She grabs at anything and everything that is within her reach when she's up in my arms and has toppled placemats full of dishes and food and grocery store displays of toothbrushes and graham crackers.
(And that's just in the past week.)
She is rarely quiet and emits a bevy of sounds, the requisite "mama"s and "dada"s have been joined by a lot of insistent "SSSSSSS!!!" and "PFFFFFFF!!!" and "HE-YAHE-YAHE-YAHE-YAH!". It is often very loud in our house.
Toys hold no interest to her, unless they are small and choke-able and not specifically hers. She makes a beeline for power cords, outlets, stairs, cabinets with sharp things and/or dangerous chemicals in them, metal edges, shoes, the dog's water bowl.
A month ago, she started crawling in earnest, hands slapping the floor in a steady cadence, belly off the floor. Her skin on the front of her knees is red and raw and she has worn holes in the front of many of her sleepers, though we've given up on the button sleepers as they are impossible to get on her while she's crawling away from us. I have now become adept at changing a baby while she's crawling away from me, as that is preferable to using all my bodily force to hold her down while she screams bloody murder.
Two weeks ago, she pulled to standing.
This week, she started cruising.
She's nine months old.
This was a classic bait and switch.
9 comments:
Go Eliza! I am amazed at how T is crawling and pulling up in ways her sister never did til much later, but E is still about a month ahead. Craziness! It is so fun to see them learn things and so hard when they are into everything. Poor M complains T is getting into her stuff not realizing it will be that way for well...ever. And I always forget the babe-in-arms phase doesn't last very long. Our babies are growing up!
If I remember correctly (which is somewhat doubtful at times), "mobile baby" chills out after awhile, when the novelty of the newly found SKILLZ wears off.
If this is not the case for her, that I agree- YOU'VE BEEN HAD!
I think second babies go one of two ways: either they're content to just hang out and let the older one take over OR they're desperate to go-go-go to keep up with the older sibling. Looks like E is a go-getter.
I am always in awe of how much little ones learn in such a seemingly miniscule amount of time. Makes is really hard to "enjoy each stage" doesn't it?!
PS - I really want to nibble on those cheeks:)
Sounds familar. She should meet Little Man!
fasten your seat belts...it's gonna be a bumpy life............. mine was walking at 9 months and quite a handful...
Oh! How did she get so old so quickly!? Look at her go-go-going. I love it.
I'm going to choose to ignore this post and live in my naive bliss
YIKES! But I'm sure my 6 m.o. has no plans to wreak that kind of havoc...
Luckily, she has retained her extraordinarily charming cuteness. Good thing.
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