We think Lauren thinks she is two. ALL this child wants to do is stand, and she is constantly frustrated by her lack of ability to do so. She answers our attempts to put her on her tummy with shrieking...yes, shrieking. If you heard it, you would probably think we had caused her bodily harm. But no, she just HATES being on anything but her knees or her feet. She searches for anything close by that she can use to pull herself up: my legs, the activity table, the toy basket, the diaper caddy, the edge of the bathtub...the list goes on and on. And mind you, she can't even fully pull herself up yet - she can just get herself to her knees, or on a good attempt, on one knee and one foot. Once she gets herself to this point, she looks at us expectantly to help her get the rest of the way on her feet, and again shrieks if she is not accommodated. I have my fingers crossed that she learns this skill quickly and we see a reduction in the current number of shrieks per day :)
As for crawling, she has little interest at this point. She will attempt a half hearted army crawl for a cell phone or a laptop, but only if it's just beyond arms reach and one scoot will do the trick. Meanwhile her sister will scoot her away across the whole play mat to get her paws on a cell phone, and even managed to maneuver herself today from her belly, to her knees, to sitting on her butt. We were very impressed. Who knows, maybe Lauren will skip crawling and go straight to walking. I'm sure she would certainly prefer it that way, since she thinks she should already know how.
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