Uh oh.

[rivka]

Alex has been ready to stand and walk for a while now, but that's something that's been clear to everyone but her. She's been standing with the most minimal of support for weeks now - like, one hand holds on to my shirt sleeve, while she twists and turns and bends without a wobble. Several times she's stood independently for a few seconds before realizing, "Hey! I'm not holding on!" and grabbing for something.

But now? Look at this. The first time she stood long enough for me to grab the camera and power it up, and she's positively nonchalant about it.



Hoo boy, are we in trouble now.

Comments

[melebeth]

You just have the most gorgeous child. And go her for the defying gravity! I can't even stand that nonchalantly at 32!

[eeyorerin]

Wow. A year ago she wasn't even fully formed yet, and now she's standing! And with a "look out world, here comes trouble" look on her face, too!

[jonquil.livejournal.com]

Hee! That is a baby who is ready for the *road*.

[janetmiles.livejournal.com]

Yay! for Alex.

[minnaleigh.livejournal.com]

Standing baby!

[tammylc.livejournal.com]

She looks so grown up!!!

[kyra-ojosverdes.livejournal.com]

Does holding the toys help her feel more secure? (It did for my kids. They didn't seem to realize that the things to which they were holding on were not, in fact, connected to things which would lend stability.)

She is just beautiful.

[rivka.livejournal.com]

Like Dumbo's feather!

(And thank you! We think she's beautiful too.)

[kyra-ojosverdes.livejournal.com]

*laugh* Yes, just like Dumbo's feather!

(My ten year-old son is smitten.)

[kcobweb.livejournal.com]

It is my firm belief - now further re-inforced by this picture - that babies should wear overalls all the time. Because they are Just. So. CUTE!!

Go Alex!

[hobbitbabe.livejournal.com]

The overalls really add to the other ways she looks like a toddler. One with something on her mind.

[rivka.livejournal.com]

Yeah, she always looks older to me when she's in jeans and a hoodie, or overalls. They make her look like a practical kid with things to get done.

[vito-excalibur.livejournal.com]

Ph34r the baby! Man is she cute. :)

[razil.livejournal.com]

Wow. I look at these pictures of Alex, and then I look down at my little (3 mo old) Cy, and marvel at how quickly time zips by.

[rivka.livejournal.com]

People told me how quickly she would grow up, and I didn't believe them. Now I look at her pictures from, say, last May? And I can't believe she was ever, ever that tiny and helpless.

[ahforgetit.livejournal.com]

Good for her. Just wait till she starts climbing things. And yes, she is a lovely little girl. I've been watching with amazement and amusement.

I don't think that I've posted here before so I'll say hi and make sure that you know that yes, I'm the Mike that you stopped over with for a couple of days in Dundee. Good to see that you're all doing so well.

[rivka.livejournal.com]

Whoa! Man, this is the problem with LJ names. I had no idea. Hi! Glad to see that things are going well for you, too.

[micheinnz.livejournal.com]

Heh. She looks like she's been standing up forever.

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

Yay for being right there with the camera! She looks like she's been doing it for weeks now.

[erisian-fields.livejournal.com]

Woohoo! Standy baby! You're so doomed. hee hee.

Does she often have each hand filled with some small toy? My younger daughter did that for years. Her favorite things were a set of figurines from a show on Nickelodeon called "The Puzzle Place." She'd go around with one figurine clutched in each hand nearly all day. I had to take them away from her so she'd eat!

Alex's hair is awesome! She's just a couple weeks older than Colin and she's got enough that it can get in her eyes. Colin still looks like a tennis ball.

[rivka.livejournal.com]

She also likes to be double-handed when she eats. If she's got, for example, cooked baby carrots on her tray, she'll pick up one in each hand. She clutches one while she eats the other.

We love her hair too, but it's a bit of a trial. It's so fine that barettes slip right out. Mostly I brush or blow her hair out of her eyes, dozens of times a day.

[erisian-fields.livejournal.com]

Jackie had hair that fine when she was that little and we had the same trouble with barettes. Even the velcro ones slid right off her hair. The ones that work like ziplock bags seem to work better, but they're purely decoration and not all that functional. If I really wanted to keep her hair out of her eyes, I put it in a "water spout"--a rubberband on top of her head. Pigtails at this age are adorable with the little tufts of hair sticking straight up.

Does she put up with styling products at all? Some of those are lots of fun for both you and her (yay, glitter!).

[hobbitbabe.livejournal.com]

I read somewhere that if you want to guess your toddler's dominant hand, look for the one that isn't always holding something - whoever wrote the book I read claimed that toddlers tend to fill up the non-dominant hand and keep the proto-dominant hand free.

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

You sure have a cute child.

B

[filkerdave.livejournal.com]

How excellent and exciting.

And it's too late to babyproof now ;)

[raincitygirl.livejournal.com]

What a clever kid she is (and she's definitely a kid now, not a baby). Is this the usual time kids stand on their own, or is she early? How steady is she on her feet? How long do you think until she starts walking, and will you and Michael survive it???????????

So, are you getting nostalgic yet for when she was a wee baby?

[rivka.livejournal.com]

This is early, but not hugely so. Most kids walk at about a year, and I bet that Alex will be walking within two weeks. She's quite steady on her feet when she stands - she can stand up and reach out to turn the pages of a book I'm holding, for example. And she can walk if we hold on to one of her hands.

Honestly, walking seems like it will be a bigger emotional milestone than a physical one. She can already crawl anywhere she wants to go, and then pull up to a stand when she gets there. The real terrors of babyproofing/parenting are that she's just figured out how to climb up stairs, and that she's gotten tall enough to reach things that are on the edge of the dining room table.

[saoba.livejournal.com]

I hesitate to mention this, but y'all are about to be the parents of a toddler. Not to worry, she'll always be your baby.

[heidi8.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! How's your babyproofing?

[rivka.livejournal.com]

The other day I took a Christmas light tester out of her mouth. Glass and wire, hooray! Just what I want in my baby's mouth.

We have a row house, and most of the first floor is one big room. That's mostly where we live, and when Alex goes elsewhere (the bathroom, her bedroom, our bedroom) she's carried and then closely supervised. I thought I had the main room well-proofed, but in the last week or so she's developed a fascination with the distant, less-safe corners. Alas.

[kalmn.livejournal.com]

wow. standing? she's about to take over the world!

[baratron.livejournal.com]

I really love the colour of her hair. It gets more noticeable the more hair she has.

Also, dungarees on girls are lovely. Even on adult women. Oh yes :)

[rivka.livejournal.com]

Up close, her hair looks like she's had a very expensive highlighting job - there are blond bits and red bits and light brown bits, all neatly blending in to each other. People pay a lot of money for hair like Alex's. ;-)

Are dungarees, specifically, the name for trousers with a bib and shoulder straps? I thought they were a general name for heavyweight work trousers.

[roadnotes.livejournal.com]

She is adorable! The second cutest baby in the world! (My goddaughter, of course, is the cutest; YMMV.)

[ailsaek.livejournal.com]

Awwwwww!

[therealjae.livejournal.com]

My goodness. Yeah, you're in for it now.

-J

[ailbhe]

She is so, so beautiful. So, so beautiful. (And yes, you're in trouble now).

I do also have a thing about dungarees (trousers with a bib and shoulder-straps). I love 'em. They are better at keeping nappies on than anything else.