A Whole New World!

Rachel has been a little bit cautious in her desire to move around. At her 9 month check up, her doctor thought she should be doing a little bit more, but I disagreed and thought it was just fine for her to just sit in one place and not move anywhere. The boys both crawled and walked a little later than average, so for me it is totally normal. I don't see what the big rush is for babies to be on the move. We actually went to a child development specialist and they wanted me to do exercises with her, which I kind of did but not really. Like I said, I wasn't too concerned. Anyways, finally one day she got the hang of it..just about a week after she turned 11 months. For me...it is all over at that point. Long gone are my long hot showers when I know she'll happily play in one spot. Now, I get to have new little messes all over the house like this one:

Who can get mad at such a sweet little face?

This video was taken about 2 weeks ago, after she had been crawling for about a week. She thinks she is pretty cool now that she can get around!

She's gotten a lot faster since then, so we have to be more aware of where she is. It's been a long time since I've had a baby on the move, so it's like I'm having to re-learn everything! In fact, today I had one of those worst parent of the year moments when I left her on the bed while I told Zac something as he was leaving and totally forgot that she could move, until she fell right off the bed. I felt so horrible and I'm thankful she was all right. Like I said....it's a whole new world!