Today's final Alex rundown.

[rivka]

She napped for exactly one hour and then woke herself up by accidentally banging her head into the crib rails. Hard. Before she was ready to wake up at all. I managed to get her to doze in the sling for another twenty minutes, but it still felt like a very inadequate nap.

In the sixty seconds it took me to go to the bathroom, she figured out how to get the top off the Vaseline jar.

She emptied a Ziploc bag full of Cheerios all over the living room floor.

She continued to have tragedy fits, and ignored about 60% of her dinner.

She pretended to feed her doll some Cheerios, which is the first time I've ever seen her pretend. To a psychologist, that's a major milestone, although it may not seem exciting to anyone else.

And!

She took about four steps without holding on to anything - a new personal record, and the first unsupported steps that were clearly differentiable from a controlled fall forward.

Walking! (A little bit, at least.)

Comments

[filkerdave.livejournal.com]

I hope you babyproofed :)

And hooray for walking!

[beaq.livejournal.com]

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Pretend is very exciting. Walking is pretty exciting, too.

[wcg.livejournal.com]

That's pretty amazing about her pretending to feed the doll. I'm sorry she's being so difficult. Hope she's in better spirits tomorrow.

[pariyal.livejournal.com]

Probably difficult because she's learning so many things at once. I thought that was over when mine stopped being toddlers, but now they're teenagers!

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

Yay! I'd thought last week that she seemed very close to walking.

Someday soon, you may wistfully remember when you could just put her down on a blanket and she'd still be in the general vicinity after a few minutes... :)

[rivka.livejournal.com]

Someday soon, you may wistfully remember when you could just put her down on a blanket and she'd still be in the general vicinity after a few minutes... :)

Heh. She's been crawling since the first week of December, and pulling up, and cruising, so those stay-on-a-blanket days are so far gone that they look kind of hazy from here.

[kcobweb.livejournal.com]

We had tragedy fits here tonight, escalating severely after 6:30 (when her daddy got home). We got her to bed quickly, whereupon there was heartfelt screaming for 5 minutes, which then cut off suddenly. Sound asleep.

May they both be happy girls tomorrow.

(And walking! Eeee! Just you wait!)

[kalmn.livejournal.com]

yay pretending!
yay walking!
yay not putting the baby out with the recycling!

*hug*

[heidi8.livejournal.com]

Yay, walking!

You know, snapfish now allows the upload of videos....

[klwalton.livejournal.com]

We wistfully put Danny down on a blanket upstairs, and 4 minutes later he was rolling downstairs. At 3 months. Yes, we were in trouble then, and we're in trouble now, 17 years and 9 months later.

I'm so sorry I missed you all when you were here :(. I have high hopes for Alex and her ambition and her determiniation. I have the hightest of hopes for your faimily, and send love to you all.

[ailbhe]

Well, I'm not a psychologist, and I think pretending is almost unbelievable, it's such a complicated thing to do. I mean, it seems normal now, but if I sit down and think about it, I almost fall over with the complexity of it.

Linnea's first pretend was also that a toy was a baby, FWIW.

And, heh, walking. Now she can get around with a dangerous object in each hand. Next, stairs!

[micheinnz.livejournal.com]

Woohoo! Look out world, here comes Alex!

[patgreene.livejournal.com]

Woo hoo! Walking! And pretending! What an eventful day -- in both good and bad ways.

Here's hoping you have a calmer day tomorrow.

[janetmiles.livejournal.com]

Pretending! And walking! Way cool, verily.

And I must tell you that I am about to snaffle up "tragedy fits" and wedge it firmly into my vocabulary.

Also, I would still like to send Alex a crocheted bungle bee, if you would like to e-mail me a snail-mail address.

[huladavid.livejournal.com]

"She pretended to feed her doll some Cheerios, which is the first time I've ever seen her pretend. To a psychologist, that's a major milestone, although it may not seem exciting to anyone else."

Oh, I dunno. About 10 years back I discovered my oldest nephew battling the willow tree that really was a dragon, and thought it was the best!

[castiron.livejournal.com]

My parents have a story about me getting into a jar of Vaseline at that age; I apparently ruined the Sunday dress I was wearing.

Yay pretending!

Yay walking! One week after my son managed the four steps from the couch to the TV cabinet, we took an overseas flight, and the child walked all the way down the international terminal concourse in the Atlanta airport. Yeah. From four steps to a quarter-mile in a week.

[kcobweb.livejournal.com]

I have a friend whose toddler first got into the economy sized jar of Vaseline and *then* opened up a large container of baby powder. I guess they didn't get it all out of her hair for *weeks*.

[tea-dragon.livejournal.com]

Hee- Vaseline! When I was two and my brother was one I put vaseline in his hair, pretending it was shampoo. Apparently he came walking down the stairs saying "Icky icky!" and my mom had to take him to the beauty parlour to get it out.

[rivka.livejournal.com]

One of my foster sisters, at age two, loved putting on my sister's makeup. Once she made the mistake of thinking that my brother's black model paint was a reasonable equivalent. You could see the finger marks where she had carefully blended it into her cheekbones.

She was soooo pleased with herself, until he held her up to the mirror...

[tea-dragon.livejournal.com]

My daughter Sarah is five now, and still hasn't lost the desire to draw on herself with whatever is handy. Most often she uses washable crayola markers, thank goodness, because she likes to cover herself from head to toe. Recently she also found my eyeliner pencil and gave herself two extra eyebrows ...

I'm dreading the day when it occurs to her to "decorate" her baby sister.

[going-not-gone.livejournal.com]

How old is she? Because to me it sounds like, developmentally speaking, she just turned TWO.

Two is a state of mind. Two can last several years. Two is alternately thrilling and terrifying and exhausting for the whole family!

Good luck.

[rivka.livejournal.com]

She'll be one on the 11th. And yes, she definitely has developed the Toddler Nature.

[minnaleigh.livejournal.com]

Yay for walking and pretending! And for a child wise enough to offer up something wonderful to her mama on such a bad day.