Willa is on the verge of mobility. She is so frustrated because she hasn't quite figured it out yet. She is creeping in all directions except forward. She really pivots with her hips as a base. When she pushes up on all fours she is starting to get her legs going, but her arms aren't going yet so she get into a downward facing dog pose. It is hard not to laugh especially when she gets so frustrated. She has been practicing in the night also. She'll wake us up about 3 or 4 making noise in her room. If we go in she'll be rocking back and forth on all fours. As long as she doesn't know we are there she'll settle back down and go back to sleep eventually.
Grandpa helped her with some mobility assistance at Christmas time and she really likes to be up and going that way. Who needs a walker when you have a laundry basket?
She is also babbling like crazy. Lots of ba, bas, na nas, maybe a ma or a da in there too. And when all else fails- she just spits, snorts or screams, but all in good fun. Yesterday she talked her way through the entire grocery store. Grandmas and Grandpas all over the store wanted to stop and talk to us about their grandkids.
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I love Willa's determination to use anything and everything to get moving in a forward direction. It might be a laundry basket, or as I noticed during her most recent yoga demonstration, she's not above trying to use her head as an extra crutch to compensate for those wittle arms.
I also noticed the irony that while Willa longs to walk and bounce around the room, her father looks completely satisfied with his horizontal position on the couch. How things change as we grow older - we always want what we can't have (or at least what we can't have as much as we'd like).
What I didn't comment on was the fact that poor Morgan was icing a near catastophic shin injury on the couch- he was chasing Blanca around the yard- he's still nursing it and it's been 2 weeks. Same shin he cracked skiing and playing soccer with you in Chicago (I think).
Isn't it cool that your Uncle D X2 now! Hope you're being careful- I don't think Grandma B could handle any more at the moment!
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