Lenny’s now 10 months old and I think we might be leaving baby behind and entering the toddler phase. While he doesn’t crawl he’s started pulling himself up on furniture and cruising around. Nothing is out of reach anymore unless it’s three feet off the ground.
Emptying everything off the bookshelf and out of the coffee table drawer has become his latest obsession. He discovered how to open the drawer a couple of weeks ago. At first he just opened and closed it, opened and closed it. Then he progressed to pulling things out one by one. Now he takes everything out and then puts some things back. It’s hours of fun but very hazardous for little fingers.
He also started re-locating things. It used to be there were only so many places we needed to look for the remote. Now we need to check the drawer, the shelf and Lenny’s first blocks box. I even found my mobile in the tissue box which was just a stroke of luck really.
Lenny’s determined to walk. In fact I think he might skip crawling alltogether. If he does crawl it will probably be a week before he walks. While cruising on furniture is ok he much prefers to be walking around in the open and grabs our hands and pulls up at every opportunity. It’s pretty hard on the lower back so a couple of days ago I made a desperate trip to the baby store to buy a walker.
Unfortunately walkers these days have huge bases and our place is pretty small so he only has to take a few steps before he collides with some piece of furniture. But I figure it’s the buffet or my back which gets wrecked at this point so who cares.
In fact I’m sure a lot of stuff is going to end up worse for wear but I’m not too worried about stuff these days.
