Video Time…

This is a short addendum to the previous post on our vacation time on Quadra Island. The very best of this vacation we have not yet unveiled. So here we go. Sofia made an incredible leap forward in her development. We are proud to announce that Sofia acquired the skills to crawl, overcome obstacles, sit up on her knees and above all, her most exciting new skill: she can stand up! Yippee!

We are so very much excited. Even better, I was lucky to capture her very first time standing up. I toke a video clip of her, intending to “show off” her crawling skills, but instead, she turned around and pulled herself up on a chair. Yesterday she even crawled up the stairs. She is so amazing. On the down side, she does not know yet how to sit down and quickly becomes upset when she realizes this flaw. She then stands there holding on to whatever she pulled herself up on, and cries until one of us comes to her rescue. Going up the stairs is even worse, because she starts to stand up by pulling on the stair-rail, which puts her in a very delicate position.

We have been avoiding the fact that we need to child prove our house until now. I guess there is no more time to loose. It has to be done quickly. Now I even have to train myself to close the doors properly. Sofia usually is in the bathroom with me when I take a shower. After she started to scoot around we could no longer leave her on the changing table, but now, it seems I cannot even leave her on the floor. So yesterday I forgot to close the door to the bathroom, and she crawled right out. Luckily there was a piece of paper right before the stairs, so that kept her attention and she did not try to roll down the stairs. Puh!

So now, without further ado, here are two videos showing some of her newly acquired skills:

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