General Update

Some new piece of M's brain clicked together this week and she started doing all sorts of new stuff.

She has started this new laughing thing. I think she realizes that when other people laugh she should or that laughing is contagious because she just shoots out this ridiculous guffaw at random times. It is really great. Too quick to catch on video though.

She is also officially able to pull herself up on pretty much anything. She can pull herself up on the side of our bed and walk the entire perimeter. She can pull herself up in her crib (don't worry, it's been lowered.) She can pull herself up on the legs of my pants. She's pretty much good to go.

We got her a little push cart at Ikea this weekend. She can hang on to that and walk around the house. Much to the chagrin of our backs we still have to follow her around in our typical bent at the waist fashion because she tends to go a bit too fast and falls. She also can't steer it so once she hits a wall/sofa/dog we have to redirect her. Video of this to follow.

The only trouble this new standing/walking ability has created comes at nap time. I used to be able to just lay her down in her crib and after a few minutes she would fall asleep. Now she instantly sits up and spends the next hour standing-sitting-standing-sitting-standing...you get the idea. After about an hour she is really tired, but hasn't figured out how to lay herself down and go to sleep. Thanks to the video monitor I watch her sit down, slump over and sorta fall asleep with her head propped up in the corner of her crib. Then she jerks awake and cries. Fun times.