Nothing is Safe Now...

A few weeks back Lena rolled herself over from back to front... on accident. Now she does it on purpose. All the time. She has also taken to using her feet to turn herself around in circles when she is on her back.

Check this out. This is what happens when I put her in her cot on her back... length-ways



And yes, our baby is a giant. She now measures in at 26.5 inches. Great-grandpa T asked me the other day if she was 8 months old. "No, just 3 months grandpa." "Holy smokes! She's a long girl!"

Anyway, last night we knew we were in for it. We put her down in her play gym (which, by the way, is the best $50 we ever invested in anything... thank you craisglist and generous middle-aged people who refuse to have anymore kids) and she promptly rolled over for tummy-time, which she hates. But she spied a toy on the floor just out of her reach and proceeded to spend the next 5 minutes getting increasingly frustrated that she couldn't get it. Then she discovered she could get her knees up underneath herself. We think its only a matter of weeks now until she starts really mobilizing herself, unless she decides that she is lazy and that it is easier to be picked up and carried around. I am hoping for the latter. Otherwise I am going to have to start child-proofing our home (and the cat's litterbox, and while I'm at it, getting the cat to stop molting) a lot sooner than I thought I would. Wish us luck, and pray for lazy babies!