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04/24/2008: "Lurch"
It's weird how suddenly your kid goes from complete confusion about a thing to *BANG* knowing just what to do with it. It's like they read the manual when you weren't looking.
Dessa has two great standup/walking support toys. One I showed pictures of already and is a constant favorite. The joy on Dessa's face when we pull it out is complete. She loves to stand with it and make a lot of noise with its various keys, flipper things and various other moving parts. When she gets a little taller, or possibly when she's just a bit more stable in her walking we'll flip the handy switch that turns it from a non-moving toy to a moving one and she'll be unstoppable.
The other toy is shorter. It's a lion and until lately she was simply fascinated with it's face - and who wouldn't be? The nose lights up, it has big friendly eyes, felt hair and little bug things attached to the side which I assume are supposed to be friends of the lion's but bear a striking resemblance to parasites. No matter. The lion is always good for a laugh. At first we tried setting her up behind it and showing her how to push it along but she wasn't really getting it. She'd walk with it if you were holding her, but on her own she'd push it ahead and keep her feet still so that she was a bridge... until she lost her balance and fell forward (we'd catch her of course, but it wasn't so fun for her to fall and it wasn't good for my blood pressure either).
Then, suddenly, on Tuesday... she got it. She just... went. Dave was behind her but she didn't need him holding her. She could balance, she could compensate for the movement of the toy and her own center of gravity. It was... stunning.
It only took me until today to get decent video of it. I'm sort of slow sometimes. Unlike my kid.
Notes from a Yarn Hacker
