Mobility

Mobility is the name of the game now. We retired the co-sleeper today, after finding C on all four at the end of it. Knowing that she already tries to pull herself up, it was too dangerous. She gets on her knees, pushes with her feet to a plank position, drops down and thus gains a few inches. She can also creeps on her belly by pushing with her toes. She can rotate and roll-over... No toes are safe from being chewed, she likes ours as much as hers! Yesterday she also got back to a sitting position from her stomach, in front of Nona and Dida. She likes an audience! We spent almost three weeks with Bon-Papa and Bonne-Maman in Quebec. It was a wonderful vacation. They were able to see C learn new tricks, improve her reach from the sitting position, become more social, engaging in "conversations" where she actually expects her interlocutor to answer back, start eating new things such as grapes, olives, madarins, etc. in her mesh feeder. We hiked near the chalet with me wearing her on my back while she looked at the path passing by, the tree leaves moving in the wind and the colorful flowers of the fields. We went to the Summer Festival to see Shilvi, a kid's singer, who fascinated C and made her squeal and squeal. There was also a toddler girl behind us who threw a tantrum. C seemed puzzled and distressed by it and even after the little girl recovered, C would glance in her direction every couple of minutes. She also had a blast with LA, a little one year old daughter of a friend of mine. They both wanted to touch each other's ears, eyes, noses, etc. C would very much have liked being able to follow LA who crawls like an Olympic sprinter, but she was stuck sitting, waving her arms and squealing. We skyped with Daddy who went back home after the first weekend and C seemed to recognize him. She stayed on her stomach and talked to him for a good twenty minutes. When we got back to the city and she saw her dad, she was ecstatic. Ever since (it's been almost two weeks) she laughs at everything he does, flirts with him by inclining her head and giving him a charming shy smile and babbles at him. When she wakes up in the morning, if she sees him she immediatly taps her feet, waves her arms and giggles. A lot is happening very fast, it's dizzying. I'm hesitant to still call C a baby...