what a difference a week makes

[aryanhwy]

Gwen has pretty much mastered the military crawl; since we got home last night, she has managed to creep up on Widget and grab hold of his tail, and make her way from the bathroom to where the cat food and water is, and dump over the bowl of water. Nothing is now safe. :)

She has also made phenomenal strides with other mobility; a couple of times we'd left her lying down in the pack'n'play, either the one in our hotel room or the one in jpgsawyer and edith_hedingham's tent, and we came back to find her sitting upright, the first evidence we'd had of her getting into a sitting position by herself. I wasn't sure, though, if she'd been using the sides of the pack'n'play to help her. But then last night we were both lying on the bed together, and a bit later I noticed she was sitting up, so clearly she can do it on her own. Yay! We celebrating last night when we got home by lowering her crib.

She still can't get up on hands and knees, but I have seen her a few times now get up on hands and feet. She can't really do anything from that position -- it's hard with your bum in the air and your head pulled down by gravity -- but it's still something new. And her ability to pull herself up onto things, too; I set her down in the bathroom before I showered, and came back a bit later to find she'd pulled herself up over the lip of the shower (which stands maybe 8" above the ground), so that she was standing up and leaning over the rim.

We are doomed. Doomed, I tell you.

Our week in Wales was, all told, even considering the tent-pegs-snapping-in-the-rainstorm-around-us day Friday, fantastic. It'll get a separate write-up, probably composed while I'm on the sleeper train to Copenhagen this evening -- sans Gwen. This will be the first time I've traveled without her. I admit, right now, I'm more looking forward to the unbroken sleep at night than I am dreading missing her. But anyway, for now, I will just close with a picture, of someone who is enjoying Welsh cake and grapes:

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[xrian.livejournal.com]

Forewarning: kids learn how to run about a week after they learn how to walk ;)

[aryanhwy.livejournal.com]

And about 5 minutes after that, the cats learn to never sleep on the floor or on any of the chairs again.

[englandbound.livejournal.com]

Cordelia started out with the hands and feet rather than hands and knees too. I wondered if it had to do with her wearing pants (no socks) on our wood floor. It took her a while to figure out how not to slip while on her knees and would do noticeably better at my in-laws where they have cushy carpet.

[aryanhwy.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the one time she did manage actual crawling was up in her bedroom, which has mint-green shag carpetting (yeah, we're not renting this place for its decor. At least they didn't mind that we boxed up all of the elephants and put them in storage in the attic).

[englandbound.livejournal.com]

Heh, my brother had that 70s green shag carpet in his bedroom in the house that my parents built. They chose to put it in there. I never understood it.

[aryanhwy.livejournal.com]

I understand how fashion changes with the time, but some fashions I can't understand how they were EVER fashionable.

(High-waisted pants are another example of this phenomenon).