My goodness, another milestone: Lorelei can now stand up.... and she does is all by herself too! In fact, this picture was taken two weeks ago (already!), on my daddy day. I had just taken Tobias to school and put her in the play-pen. She was just playing and I was making myself a cup of coffee. I come back from the kitchen and see this! Unbelievable! She had gotten up all by herself, was standing in the box smiling and havind a great time! Of course it took a lot out of her and when she let go she fell backwards... She did not yet have the strength or coordination to sit back down on her bum or her knees....
That did not take long though. Last week she could do that as well and now there is nothing she rather does than going to the play-pen or to her crib, when she is in her room, and pull herself up, stand and the "walk" back and forth from one end of the play-pen to the other and back. And she is having loads of fun, and spending loads of energy doing so.
Another one of her favorite things to do is crawl and she is getting faster by the day, no, by the hour, no, by the minute! It does not matter too much how many toys are on the floor to play with or even if we are on the floor to play with her... she heads straight for one of two things:
1. The kitchen, where the cat-bowl is
2. The fire-place
These of course are two places we don't want her to go :-). The kitchen because dangerous stuff happens there like hot pans sitting on a stove and such. The fire-place because we have a tiled elevated area around it with quite sharp edges, and of course dangerous stuff will be happening there once we start firing it up again coming fall and winter. But hey, that makes it all the more fun for Lorelei (apparently).
It is so good to see her moving around the house, though, and see her new developments every day, including milestones such as this one!
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