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It has been two blissful weeks since Mason learned to crawl. At first he was content to crawl from toy to toy, stop and play and move on to the next toy. I could close my bedroom door, put some toys down, dust the blinds, take a shower and have a happy baby the whole time. This time was short lived! Mason now insists on climbing up to everything! It started out with a little stool. I quickly put that stool away so he wouldn't get any ideas. The next day it was the couch. We were watching Idol when I looked down and there he stood. It took a minute for my brain to register that he had to get to that standing position somehow and I hadn't helped him! Then it was his bed after his nap. I walked into the room and he stood right up.
He is no longer content to crawl around and play with his toys. He wants to stand. He will try to pull himself up to anything, office chairs with wheels, small little nesting tables not sturdy enough to hold a wobbly little boy. He even thought he could move back and forth from our coffee table to the couch. The problem is, he can't! Instead of him crawling after me, I am crawling after him. He is wobbly and unsteady but confident, making for a nerve racking situation.
I thought he might take his time and be a baby for awhile but it seems he has his mind made up. He wants to keep up with his older brothers and he is not going to slow down. He's just shy of 9 months old but not letting that stop him!
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Ang said…
Before you know it you'll have to put your bar stools on the counter! Man, he's cute.
March 1, 2009 at 2:53 PM
M.E. said…
We are in the same boat, except that Ethan thinks that he needs to walk! Maybe this means tht they will be natural at sports! :)
March 1, 2009 at 4:59 PM
Aimee said…
I can't believe how big he is getting and that you are in a baby stage. That stage seems so foreign to me now. (Although, you felt that way about me four years ago, huh?)
March 2, 2009 at 10:03 PM
wylie said…
He is definitely not one to watch life go by. You could see it in his personality from the start--in his lack of nap taking, how attentive he is to everything going on and everyone near him. He's very alert and very ready to take everything on isn't he!
March 4, 2009 at 9:13 AM
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