Parent of a Crawler

I've quickly learned that parenting is all down hill from here.

The first 8 months, each "accomplishment" of Lorelai's seemed to make our lives a little easier. There was sleeping through the night, smiling, rolling over, sitting up (my personal favorite), eating (I had no idea how much easier this would make my life. A handful of cheerios can keep her occupied for 30 minutes....amazing)...all of which made everything she did more wonderful, more enjoyable, and somehow each of her accomplishments felt like our accomplishments.

And then there was crawling. It was the most anticipated of all the accomplishments, her little downward-dog yoga pose went on for about 2 months before she actually put her knees down and started moving. And then....wait....

Where did you go?

It was that fast. I went from knowing about where my daughter was at all times, to cutting up an avocado in the kitchen, looking down and seeing her almost step off the landing headfirst towards the basement steps. (and then I promptly picked her up, moved her, went back to cutting and realized she was back at the same landing chasing our cat, Lady Grey, in about 20 seconds). I have not even mentioned the challenge that is the airport now that we have a crawler....oh my goodness.

(I love this photo because she looks so mischievous!)

Crawling quickly required us to get outlet covers, rearrange our entire living room so that anything "baby height" was "baby friendly" buy an extra long baby gate to close off parts of our main floor, it also meant running our Roomba every day because now I had to be aware of any speck of dirt, fabric, cat hair, that was contained in the room Lorelai would be playing it...would immediately be found by my daughter and promptly shoved into her mouth without a second glance.

Lady Grey has learned that the middle of the coffee table is the only place safe from our little monster, and Lorelai has learned that she can chase Lady Grey (and Roomba) to her heart's content. Mom and dad have learned that life will never be the same.

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