More Than a Little Bit Mobile

People are always so excited when their kids start to move and are quick to announce that they are "mobile". I think there are different stages of mobile. There's the first stage, when your kid learns to roll over and can get from any two points in the house by rolling the whole way there. Then there's the second stage, where the baby is trying to learn how to crawl but goes backwards more than forwards. Next comes the army crawl, then the scoot, then the regular crawl and eventually they work themselves up to walking.

Amanda isn't quite at the point where she's walking yet. She is crazy with the walker, we can't figure out if she is going really fast or just trying to keep up so she doesn't fall down. Either way, she moves quickly, until she bumps into something and doesn't know how to right herself. She pulls up on everything, can stand in one place without holding anything for 3-4 seconds, and creeps (that's walking while holding onto something - couch, table, person, bed, wall, you get the idea) all over the house. She is also a lightening fast crawler and can easily get away from you in her quest to get into trouble and put something hazardous in her mouth.

When Amanda first started crawling, she really didn't have much interest in going very far. She crawled, but stayed in her comfort zone of the living room and kitchen. Now that she is almost walking, she's become more reckless and fearless. She goes everywhere and she's not afraid of anything. Her favorite place to visit right now? The steps. She is actually very good at climbing the stairs, and if you take your eye off her for too long that's where she will be. She can get up them very fast. It's not that she wants to do anything that is upstairs, she just wants to go up the stairs. We've been trying to teach her how to go down properly, but so far I don't think it's really sinking in. If she is this adventurous now, we are in big trouble.

I've been trying to post a video for the past three days that shows her climbing up the stairs, but blogspot sucks and I can't get it to work. So, you're going to have to take my word for it and envision her climbing about 16 stairs in 30 second. Ugh!