Into and Onto Everything

Whenever we take Jillian places people always seem impressed by her mobility. Then they look at me and tell me their sorry. I certainly appreciate their empathy because they're absolutely right. Keeping up with a fearless and mobile infant is hard work. And teeth have brought a new complication as she intends to bite all furniture in her path, as reflected by the $50 I blew at Babies R Us in an attempt to save the rails of her crib from further damage. As adorable as she is moving about, there are times I ache for that oh so brief period between the constant crying stage and crawling. And yet we keep encouraging her to hit milestone after milestone with our cheers and "yays". I even caught Jeramy coaxing her to take a couple of steps this afternoon.

Here are some examples of her latest feats (in addition to escaping through the dog door):

She climbed in this toy bin herself. She couldn't quite figure out how to exit it though. She would get frustrated, then play with some toys for a while, then try again.

She loves climbing on the step of this toy (which also happens to be the loudest toy on the planet)

Quite competent with her walk behind toy although she can't back-up yet.

I wish that I could say that standing is a new thing, but she has been doing it for a few weeks now. She can even squat down then stand back up then squat again then stand up...well you get the picture. I tried imitating her but discovered that it's really hard work (great for the leg muscles though)