Milestone: Walking!

Lorelei is walking. That is, she is doing more than one step before collapsing onto her knees. Today she walked all the way from the coffee table into the kitchen (which is not that far, but it is at least 10+ steps! :-)). I have to apologize for the image quality, but it was kind of hard to keep an eye on her, try to walk backwards, encourage her, and take a picture at the same time. I hope we'll have some better pictures soon. In fact, I might try to get a movie posted into this post.

Update: Well, that worked, here is the video:



Tobias started walking on a day when he was staying with my parents, so we were not there.... My parents were here yesterday, so I am not 100% sure if Lorelei did not do the same thing, but I am sure of one thing: she walked today! If she did start yesterday, she started walking at the exact same age as Tobias.... one day before she turned 16 months. If she started today, she would be exactly one day later than Tobias :-). I guess I should ask my parents, but I am not sure they'd give me a straight answer. Especially my mom was a bit worried when Tobias took his first real steps at their house, without any one of us present. So, I guess I'll wait and maybe ask a few month down the road :-).

Regardless, this is one major milestone!


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Swimming Pool

Tobias loves swimming. Lisa would take him to baby swimming and he would just love it. During vacations we would take Tobias to Rotterdam where they have a huge swimming pool with water slides and all kinds of other stuff. Lorelei is not as fond of swimming as Tobias was, but once she is in the water she'll laugh and splash and play. Lisa took Lorelei to the baby swimming too, but Lorelei is currently experiencing some eczema so we were advised not to put her in the water as often. So, we're not bathing her as often and Lisa is not taking her to baby swimming anymore. During the winter-break we did go to the huge swimming pool and we did take Lorelei there. And, she loved it! She was so cute kind of crawling around in the water, playing with a ball, splashing the water. And, going down the slide with Tobias!




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Couch Potato

I wrote before that Lorelei is able to climb on the couch. Well, at that time she was able with a little bit of help from her daddy, but now she is able! She climbs up and down, up and down, up and down. It is not the up and down that's scares me, it is the sideways.... sometimes she hangs quite far over the side of the sofa ready to fall, or not? Anyway, it freaks me out.

What's even worse is that now she can do it by herself she does not need us anymore and she does not call us either, she'll just do it whenever.... Like last week when Lisa was cooking and Tobias was watching some TV. Lisa went into the living room and saw Lorelei sitting kind of like this, staring at the TV, like a true American Couch Potato!

This picture was taken in my attendance. I think she is watching Ice Age 3 :-).


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