She has more than mastered crawling and does so with a purpose. One moment she will be happy playing with her toys in the middle of the living room and on a moment's notice will drop what she is holding, take off out of the living room with either the dog's bowls or perhaps her bedroom in mind. This morning she was playing in the living room with the dogs and I, and off she went, down the hallway crawling with the form, coordination, and nearly the speed of an adult, strait to her bedroom door and started banging on it with her hand.
Her awareness and memory is obviously growing. For example, she knows that she is about to get some grub when we get out a bottle to prepare for her and she quickly grows impatient. She also knows where her two boxes of toys are, the basket of magazines, and other fun things around the house, as she seeks them out regularly.
Every day she is harder to distract from something that we don't want her to get into. Frequently she will have the dog bowls on her mind and after she crawls into the kitchen we will pick her up and return her to a toy in the living room. She won't have any interest in the toy and will go strait back to the kitchen. This can happen several times.
It is obvious that she is learning a lot about her environment. She is curious about everything around her and is ever happy and independent. Cuddle time is a rarity. She would rather be on the floor, crawing between the t.v., the coffee table, a chair, the fire place, and standing up next to each of them and trying to grab something. With all this crawling, grabbing on to objects, and standing up next to them, she is getting much stronger, and gaining balance and confidence. It could be next week when she starts standing on her own without holding a chair or leg for stability. Already she is letting go and standing unassisted for a second or two.
It is obvious that she is learning a lot about her environment. She is curious about everything around her and is ever happy and independent. Cuddle time is a rarity. She would rather be on the floor, crawing between the t.v., the coffee table, a chair, the fire place, and standing up next to each of them and trying to grab something. With all this crawling, grabbing on to objects, and standing up next to them, she is getting much stronger, and gaining balance and confidence. It could be next week when she starts standing on her own without holding a chair or leg for stability. Already she is letting go and standing unassisted for a second or two.
