Bring it on
I haven’t spent much space on Lillian’s exploits lately, and they have been coming very fast, so I’ll have to just catch up with the latest ones. Her research on the physics of small objects recently yielded the insight that many things move on their own when held up and released, and further, that they tend to move downward. So she has been spending a lot of her high-chair time lately hanging her head and shoulders over the edge and staring at the floor, trying to make out what’s become of the spoons and other toys that have gone that way. The two lower teeth that showed up last week have made her bite considerably worse than her bark. I didn’t even know about the teeth until she grabbed my finger for the routine taste test and left a couple of red marks. I’ve been more careful since. She seems interested in what might be inside people’s noses and mouths, and uses her fingers to explore. If you aren’t paying attention, she can hook a hand in your hair, pull you close and take a bite out of your nose before you can stop her.
Last night I saw her new standing-up trick for the first time. This has been going on all week, Mary says. She pulls herself to a standing position, leaning on some object or person, then pushes off and wobbles there for a good five seconds before falling on her butt. Then she tries it again. I remember our excitement when Laura turned out to be an early walker. Later on, with sore knees and overtaxed nerves from constantly diving to catch her, I realized that a few more months of crawling might have been nice. Well, here we go again. And I’m in even worse physical shape this time, so this should be interesting.
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