Mara is OFF!!!

She's crawling...and GOD help us all! She's into everything. I know as a mother of two I should have been prepared for this but I wasn't. Alaric NEVER got into anything. He never pulled books off the shelf, never ate paper, never threw toys everywhere. When Amara started doing it, we were all shocked.

Here she is...after pulling all the magazines out of the basket next to the toilet, she pulled herself up on the toilet. Lesson learned, KEEP THE LID SHUT!!! This is seconds after I had to yell at her for picking up the toilet paper in the potty- YUCK! Look how proud she is, though.

Crawling, pulling up, and being mobile aso means injury. She thinks she's all that and a bag of chips. It's hard to see in this picture because it looks like her dimple but she has a purple bruise on the side of her face from taking one hand off the coffee table and face planting into the side.

Just hours later, she began pulling herself up in her crib after her nap. Alaric and I came in to get her. She pulled both hands off the rail to reach for us, fell sideways and headplanted into the back of the crib. She's trying to do it all at once- patience, Amara!

I needed proof of her crawling. She doesn't crawl normal but rather with her left leg under her and her right leg up and pushing her along the ground. What better way to see her technique then naked since she wont sit still anymore for that either!