Yep, she’s sick again. I really hope I don’t get this one. On Wednesday Sophia was very calm and quiet, more so than usual. We were standing in line to pay a Comcast bill that was due on that very day. The person in front of me was staring at Sophia and said, “oh, it must be close to her nap time.” Shows how much she knows. Sophia just woke up. I hoped that maybe it was just her teeth causing the calm before the storm. She currently has four and I can see two more top ones on their way out. No such luck. Thursday I heard sneezing and by Friday the snot flow-eth over. Thursday also marked new milestone. I saw Sophia using walls, as in flat vertical surfaces to navigate the room. Later in the day, Kurt and I both saw her use her Radio Flyer Scoot About to stand up and push it across the room. She’s been pulling herself up and using objects to move around things for quite a while, but it’s always been stationary objects with grippy ledges to hang onto.
She has also experimented with standing unassisted in the past. She stopped trying that for a while and now she’s picking that up again and doing a lot better with it. She can stand for about twenty seconds and then she’ll either grab onto something or do a slow controlled butt crash to the floor. I do mean a controlled crash. She’s a very careful baby. Very gentle too. Except with the cat. She actually pats the cat very softly for an infant/near toddler but she also likes to grab fists full of fur or the occasional ear.
Not-a-nanny captured a picture of me handing seven month old Sophia a weed pretty little flower and even then Sophia took it very carefully and examined it thoroughly.
So Friday Sophia was sneezing and snotting all over the place. Yes, she has made snot a verb. She’s a gifted girl, don’t question her. Friday night was lovely. Every hour. Really, every hour. Every FRICKIN’ hour after her bedtime she woke up. Until 3am. She skipped 3am and 5 am. But I’m so greedy I’m not even grateful for the extra sleep the baby sleep tyrant bestowed upon me.
Saturday morning Kurt and I captured some video footage of her Radio Flyer Scoot About milestone. (click on the picture to see the video)
And here she is using the Scoot About properly.
August 25th, 2008 at 5:22 pm
Sorry to hear that your baby girl is sick. I love the video of her using the bike as a walker. Too cute!
christys latest blog post… Starting them young
August 25th, 2008 at 6:48 pm
Yay! I helped assemble that scooter! I taught Sophia to walk! *takes credit*
Mygosh, she’s cute, though.
August 26th, 2008 at 3:08 am
I must have the wrong walking toys. Sophia looks so cute walk scooting
August 26th, 2008 at 9:48 pm
christy – Thank you. She’s not too bad. It’s just a snotty nose really. It’s not as bad as some of the past colds she received from daycare. I’m so glad she’s out of daycare!!
August 26th, 2008 at 9:51 pm
Susan Anderson – Why? What walking toys do you have? I picked Sophia’s out cause it’s just a plain walking toy. No batteries needed. Nothing to distract her into thinking it’s anything else other than a scooter, except the fringe on the handlebars
September 6th, 2008 at 9:08 am
I love the video! But what is hanging between her legs? She looks like she has a tail ( I forgot she is Monkey-Butt}
September 7th, 2008 at 9:22 pm
Claudia – That’s part of her PJs. It’s missing a set of snaps and I didn’t notice when I purchased them or when I took the tags off and threw them in the trash, so I kept them. They work well as PJs, but yes, they look silly with the flap. And yes, she is Monkey-Butt
September 19th, 2008 at 12:46 am
first of all, sophia is sooooo cute and i miss her so much!! Kurt… she doesn’t know left from right! of course her legs are splayed, try having that much material between your legs and see how you walk rofl