Blast From The Crazy Past: Shelby Walking?

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Thursday, 17 November 2005


Surprise, Surprise!

Just when you think you know your kids so well, they up and surprise you. I thought hoped, that Shelby would take her time with walking and moving around. I mean, she did take her time going from the army crawl to the out-and-out-crawl...so...I thought that I might have a break!

Based on today's events, I don't think that is going to happen....sigh...

Shelby will be 9 months in a couple days and she has started pulling herself up to things. This means that the beds, coffee tables, shelves and anything under 2 feet tall is totally fair game to a young child of almost-nine-months. After learning how to stand in one place and totally thrash a coffee table, she moved on to walking around the furniture and destroying EVERYTHING within her little grasp!

I mistakenly thought that this would be the end of new learning processes for a little while. You know...learn something new and then concentrate on perfecting that ability?? HAH! Not with my little fruitcake!

Yesterday I watched Miss Shelby let go of the couch and slowly lower herself to the floor to pick up a toy! ACK! This means that she potentially could get those little piggies moving away from furniture anytime soon! Sigh.....

What's a mother to do???
Why do the babies have to grow up so fast????