Crawling

It's official. We have a mobile baby. And with that came a lot of changes. It's been a bittersweet couple of days. I'm excited to see her grow and change, but at the same time, she's not a little baby anymore. Because she can now get from place to place (what?? the baby isn't where I left her??) we have to actually baby-proof some of our home. We're not going crazy and baby-proofing the whole house from top to bottom, but there are a few things we need to get done.

One of the first things we did was lower her crib mattress to the lower setting. So sad. I know it will never be on that high position again. She's a big baby now. It's really hard to get her in it now too! I'm so short, I have to stand on my tip toes and bend all the way over. We need some kind of pulley system! :)

Luckily, we foresaw this new mobility and ordered 3 baby gates last weekend. They arrived on Tuesday, and now we need to install them. We are going to corral her in the kitchen/living room downstairs (keeping the dining room, office, half bath and stairs baby free). And then upstairs she will have access to her room and our room. But a gate will keep her out of the bathroom, the craft room and the top of the stairs.

I'm still trying to figure out what to do with the bird. I knew we needed to get a new table to put him on. One that has a cabinet to hold all his food/dishes/toys, etc. And the cat brushes and other pet paraphernalia. But it didn't occur to me (until she did it) that if she were to pull up on the table, she is tall enough to stick her cute little baby fingers inside the bottom of his cage. First of all: GROSS! Bird poop! Second, he might bite her. He's a nice bird, but he has been known to bite, especially if you stick our fingers in his cage. He is a bird after all.

So we noticed she was getting ready to start crawling a few days ago. She went after the TV remote on the floor. She crawled a good six inches. When I put the remote 12 inches away, she whined, and then put her head down on the floor in defeat.

Yesterday, however, she crawled from the middle of the living room to the kitchen (a good 15 feet) without so much as a whimper.

We have a plan for baby-proofing the house. And I guess we'll just have to work on it a little at a time as she discovers what she can get into.

Amazing how fast it happened. I was sure she'd never crawl.