Going Mobile

I don’t intend to turn this entirely over to Video Baby Blogging, but SteelyKid has been adding new tricks at an amazing rate, and I have the camera… Here, she showcases her newfound mobility, and her inherited taste in entertainment:

The odd one-leg-under crawling style seems to be a local maximum– she can get up on all fours in the classic crawling posture, but she doesn’t have the mechanics entirely worked out, and makes faster progress with her left leg folded under. In the tradition of her experimentalist father, she doesn’t see an immediate need to fix what’s basically working.

The bookshelf she made a beeline for contains fiction anthologies. the specific book she grabbed was The Book of Ballads. It sticks out a bit from the rest of the books on that shelf, which is probably why it’s a favorite.

We spent a good chunk of the morning baby-proofing things, and there is now a gate blocking those shelves (it was easier than finding a new home for all those books). And, if you’ll excuse me, I need to go to Babies ‘R’ Us and get some cabinet latches,,,