Daddy Tree: Tiny Footsteps

But Daddy, there aren't any DVDs in this drawer. Oh, yes! I love helping Daddy organize his DVDs. I'm mostly to blame for the mess in the picture on the left, but Willow contributed. She's not a champion crawler yet, but she's starting to get around, mostly by a short crawl then lunge or by rolling around and pulling. So while I was cleaning the living room the other day, she rolled herself over to the pile of DVDs, CDs and books I'd started to compile to move upstairs. She'd started to pull them from their TV-stand shelves, you see. Once she reached the pile, she pulled it down and scattered it around, then she rolled all over it, chewing this and gumming that, throwing this and bending that. With a watchful eye, I let her play. Before long, it was time for me to dust in the nursery, so I moved to the floor there and gave her some toys while I started to dust. She immediately realized playing in the pile o' media was much more fun...

She's not crawling yet, but our little girl has become quite the explorer. It's not pretty, but she's learned to scooch and roll all over the living room, and she does it BACKWARD to boot. Yep, she's a backward scoocher. Her backwardness isn't on purpose, though. She has every intention of going forward, but when she lifts her heinie in an attempt to crawl forward, her feet fly backward, which thrusts her body a couple of inches in that direction. But she gets places, even if she can't see where she's going. This morning, she proved the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. She scooched backward until she was at the side of the TV stand. There she discovered the "Sex and the City" series box, knocked it on its side and started gumming on it. She drooled all over that show much like Mommy does. And just like I have to do with Mommy, I had to take the show away when the drooling simply became too much. She then scooched her way around the T...