Mia is now a baby on the move. She is also starting to attempt to pull herself up (this is all happening a little fast for me, but that's another blog post). She is by no means strong enough to pull herself into a standing position just yet, but she is strong enough to make my days a little bit busier. So she crawls across the room to somewhere she isn't supposed to be and then teeths on our furniture.
Her two favorite items to gnaw on are a child-sized wooden rocking chair that was Kevin's when he was little, and a solid oak side table that came from my parents' house and that I remember from my own childhood. My day now looks something like this:
Mia: crawls
Mommy: sternly Mia! NO.
Mia: stops, smiles from ear to ear, starts toward leg again with mouth open
Mommy: swooping in to save the day NO Mia. places Mia safely back in the center of the room
Mia: fusses and starts crawling towards table leg again
We can have a half dozen rounds of this before I find whatever the current trick is to distract her.
I was telling this story to my mom at the beginning of last week and she told me that it served me right, that she had an Italian inlaid end table with teethmarks along the edge. Apparently, she had turned her back on me and in that short time, I moved my walker across the room and made a snack out of their imported table.
Sure enough, when I visited this past weekend, there were the teeth marks along the table ledge.
Darn.
Maybe I can just use the shavings as mulch next spring...
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
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I think chewing on furniture is a rite of passage for children. Both of my nephews chewed the ends of my parents wall-unit. And my nieces were known for nibling on their rocking chairs. I am interested to see what my newest niece Kaitlynn decides to chew, as well as Joycelen.
Glad you liked the costume. It was the hit of the night, and M and I had a blast making it.
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