trouble

Aria has been crawling forward for only a week, and she has started exploring everything around the living room - the bottom shelf of every bookcase, underneath her high chair, the garbage cans, the undersides of the chairs (who knew there were tags under there?).  She has yet to make it to the hallway or the kitchen, but it is only a matter of time.  She loves to pull everything off the shelves - I'm not worried about the DVDs yet, but she has already destroyed one book (thankfully one that we didn't care about).  She loves the feeling of plastic (bags, wrap, etc.) in her hands, and paper in her mouth.  Her soother is in her mouth much more often these days not to keep her happy, but to keep everything else out of it. 

And I know we are JUST getting started.

Within the week she has figured out how to go from sitting to crawling.  Do the same thing in reverse, and she's mastered crawling back to sitting.  (I should clarify that her crawling isn't so much on her hands and knees and more on her tummy like she's doing the worm.)  Occasionally she'll get up on her hands and feet (like a bear crawl), but hasn't moved in that position yet. 

And then this morning she pulled herself up to standing.  Already?  Really?  I was playing with the camera, then looked up and there she was!  It didn't last very long before she fell over, but she did pull herself up there completely on her own. 

So look out, Grandma and Grandpa Palmer.  You better be ready for us to come and visit in twelve days!