Anyhow, Alex's birthday had more significance this year than just bringing him one year closer to turning 30. Riley started crawling, and oh man, things just got interesting! Cale has been mobile for nearly a year now and so I know what it's like to have to keep my eye on a child, but Riley adds a whole new variable to the equation! Due to the way Cale is he was never a child that would find a small object on the floor and immediately put it in his mouth. I could leave pennies, marbles, thumb tacks, and pretty much anything else that a pediatrician or a fellow mom would gasp at the sound of, on the floor and Cale would move right by them and never give them a second look. Riley, on the other hand, will put anything and everything in her mouth and so I'm learning a whole new definition to the term "baby proof". Cale, although he crawls and pulls himself up on furniture, doesn't exactly move at lightning speed. Riley, though, can be nowhere in sight when I'm changing Cale's diaper and the next thing I know she's one fist full of a poopy mess. Yes, things just got a whole lot more interesting but I am having so much fun! I remember the countless hours of physical therapy that we needed to get Cale to move and so just watching Riley learn it all on her own has been thrilling, not to mention it has lifted a huge mountain of worry off my shoulders! Now I just need to hold my breath until she learns to walk and talk. :)
Cale has been learning a few skills of his own, too. We have baby latches on all of our cupboards to keep Cale (and now Riley) from opening them and dumping dishes all over the floor. The other day I was cooking and heard a huge crash! Cale had pulled a stack of glass bowls off a shelf and let them hit the floor. No broken glass but there were many tears after a harsh discipline...Cale knows better. I thought it was weird that he had gotten into the cupboards but I excused it as me just forgetting to close the door. Well, he got into the same cupboard yesterday but thankfully I caught him before he managed to pull anything off the shelf. I watched him from the around the corner to see how he was getting the door open and I watched as he carefully opened the door as far as it would go until the baby latch caught, then he wiggled his hand up to pull down on the latch, and after he did that he knew to pull on the door before the latch caught again. Amazing. Simply amazing. So much for our kitchen being child-proofed anymore. Oh well, a part of me is just so proud that he is smart enough to have figured that out. :)
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Just don't keep your thumbtacks in that cupboard and you'll be fine. Just fine!
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