New Skills

For a long time now

I have felt that Miss L

was so content with her life

that she was choosing

to not learn any new, normal baby skills.

For months now

I have said

she is an 8 month old

trapped in a 4 month old body,

then

she is a 9 month old

trapped in a 4 month old body

then

she is a 10 month old,

you get it.

I kept saying that because

she had no teeth,

she didn't roll over

(at one point she learned how to roll

from her tummy to back,

but then she forgot)

she didn't crawl,

she didn't scoot,

she couldn't sit up from laying down

or pull up on anything.

You see why I kept calling her

a 4 month old?

Add in the fact

that she just barely

grew out of her 3-6 mos clothes,

and she could have passed for younger.

Well, this week she has advanced!

For the last several weeks

She has been working on

rolling

from her back to tummy.

And she got her first tooth in,

it only took 11 months.

But she's also

FINALLY

learned to sit up on her own.

I didn't realize it

until one morning

when the babe

was supposed to be

sleeping

but I kept hearing

these scratching noises

coming from her room.

I went in

to discover this.

Her love and admiration for

the wall.

Not only was she sitting up

but she was trying to pull up

on the railing.

Apparently,

she's tired of not being

her age.

Let's just say we went

from the bed in the highest position

to the lowest position

that day.

Seriously,

we didn't lower her bed

until she was 11 months old.

I hadn't thought

how weird that was

until now.