My child is climbing. In general we are pretty safe since there’s not a whole lot she can climb on around here – no stairs, not much furniture, some toys. But she’s already proved to us she can climb stairs when given the opportunity (at someone else’s house), and she can climb on and off her bed mattress at will (about 6″ off the ground). Unfortunately she now thinks she can get off all furniture the same way, I caught her trying to slither off of our mattress the other day, face-first. Sweet. I need to figure out how to teach her to go feet-first. Her favorite toy, the Learning Home, has some little attached “shelves” – I don’t know how to explain it, but there’s one round part about 3 inches off the ground. She now spends a lot of time standing on that little platform, gripping the roof of the house, leaning forward and cackling with glee. Den said he nearly had a heart attack the first time he saw her doing it, but then he realized there’s not much he can do about it. Today while playing a basket turned off by her leap frog music table, so she took the opportunity to try climbing onto<\/i> the table. Den caught her.<\/p>\n
One of our nicknames for her is now “Monkey.” I also call her “Goose” pretty regularly (for “silly goose!”).<\/p>\n
If books are one of her loves, music is another. She loves<\/i> her music toys. She’s always liked things that make noise of some sort, but now it is specifically those toys that sing a little song, her favorites currently being her singing bear, camera, and the learning home. She knows exactly what buttons do songs and goes straight for them. I tend to sing along with them now, since the words get stuck in my head, and she’ll often stare at me, fascinated, as I do so. As soon as the song ends – or in many cases about 2 seconds before the song ends – she reaches over to press the button again, then turns back to watch me. Just this week she’s started swinging her arms back and forth, twisting her upper body left and right, in a kind of very primitive baby-dance. Also clapping, as we tend to clap and say, “Yaayyyy!” when a song ends. It’s so adorable! I clearly need to learn more kids songs. She loves it when I sing it to her, but we both get tired of The Itsy Bitsy Spider, Patty Cake, and Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. I have a very small repertoire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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