She’s getting closer

Lily took her first step yesterday very unintentionally. It was so exciting. Waldo had just got home and she wanted down so she could go see him. I put her down on her feet and rather then sit down and crawl like normal she lifted one leg and moved it forward and then kind of got this look like “what the heck just happened” and down she went as Waldo and I clapped and said yay.

We are in no big hurry for her to walk because hello she’s already mobile and fast enough. But that makes these wonderful milestones no less exciting. Speaking of milestones, this one is totally screwing up our sleep. For the last couple of nights she wakes up and starts trying to roll away or more often stand up. Between this and a slight stuffy nose and teething I am one tired Mama.

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This picture has nothing to do with this post I just think it’s very cute.

Under the gate

We have turned our living room into a giant play pen with baby gates on each door way. Because our cats are fat, lazy and some of them are old and stubborn the gates are raised off the floor 4-6 inches. We knew that Lily might be able to wiggle under the gates but hoped we were wrong. We were not. Yesterday she was playing by the gate to our bedroom and threw a toy to the other side and next thing I knew she was in our bedroom. When I brought her back to the livingroom she kept trying to walk through the gate.

Trying to get through the gate

Today I was able to catch video evidence of how ineffective the gate is.

Under the gate from Christy Wiggins on Vimeo.

Sorry the video is a little shaky I was laughing (silently) so hard at her.

On the wrong side of the gate

When I went in after her she took off in a high speed chase around our bed laughing at how fun the whole thing was.